Mother Earth Goddess of Kurdistan: Neolithic spirituality, femininity and contemporality
Publication information:
Deniz, Dilşa. 2023. “Mother Earth Goddess of Kurdistan: Neolithic Spirituality, Femininity and Contemporality.” in Uses and Abuses of Power in Alternative Spiritualities. Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Abstract
Presenter bio: Dilşa Deniz is a sociocultural Kurdish anthropologist and presently is a visiting scholar at HarvardDivinity School. Her research focuses on gender, the cultural, political, and religious practices in relation to Kurdish Alevis, Alevi geography, and myths of Alevism in Kurdish communities, particularly in the city of Dersim, an ancient urban centre for Kurdish Alevism in Anatolia. She presently working on her book project on Shâmaran, the Mother Earth Goddess of Kurdistan and the decolonization of Kurdish myths.
Presenter affiliation: Harvard Divinity School