Linda Johnsen is a long-time student of religious philosophy and spirituality and an initiate in the Shaktavaita Tradition. She holds degrees in Eastern and Western Psychology, and has post-graduate training in theology and Sanskrit. She has travelled to India and lived with women saints. She writes for several spiritual magazines and has contributed to several anthologies including The Divine Mosaic: Womens Images of the Sacred Other. She resides in California.
Johnson, author of Daughters of the Goddess: The Women Saints of India (LJ 6/1/94) and devotee of Amritanandamayi Ma, uses story, myth, and Tantric cosmology to encourage Westerners to heed the rich and varied goddess‘traditions of Hindu tradition and to revive the lost or scorned traditions of the goddess within Western culture itself. Dwelling in turn on different aspects of the goddess as exemplified by her different names (Durga for power and so on), Johnson covers an ambitious range of materials, from post-Darwinian evolutionary theory to the Nag Hammadi texts. An interesting and idiosyncratic journey for readers interested in women's spirituality and religious experience, this is recommended for strong women's studies and religion collections.
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