Charlene Spretnak (born 1946 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an author, academic and feminist credited with pioneering work in ecological thought and social criticism. Year 1946 ( MCMXLVI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created Feminism is a discourse that involves various movements theories, and Philosophies which are concerned with the issue of Gender difference, advocate She has contributed to the framing of the women's spirituality, ecofeminist and Green politics movements. Feminist Theology is a movement generally in Christianity, Judaism and New Thought, to reconsider the traditions practices Scriptures Ecofeminism is a social and political movement which attempts to unite Environmentalism and Feminism, with some currents linking Deep ecology and Green politics is a Political ideology which places a high importance on ecological and environmental goals and on achieving these goals through broad-based Prof. Spretnak has also written three books on ecological politics and ecophilosophy. She is co-author of Green Politics: The Global Promise (Dutton, 1984), which was a catalyst for the forming of the Green Party of the United States; she was a co-founder of the party itself. One of the Political parties in the United States, and similar in mission to many of the worldwide Green Parties, the Greens have been active as a third party
Spretnak teaches at the California Institute of Integral Studies, a private San Francisco, California-based graduate school whose programs focus on clinical psychology on one hand, and the study of the world's various spiritual traditions on the other. The California Institute of Integral Studies ( CIIS) is a private graduate school founded in 1968 and based in San Francisco, California. The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. Clinical psychology includes the scientific study and application of Psychology for the purpose of understanding preventing
Books by Charlene Spretnak
- Green Politics with Fritjof Capra
- Missing Mary: The Queen of Heaven and Her Re-Emergence in the Modern Church
- The Resurgence of the Real: Body, Nature, and Place in a Hypermodern World
- States of Grace: Spiritual Grounding in the Postmodern Age' 1993
- The Politics of Women's Spirituality : Essays by Founding Mothers of the Movement
- Lost Goddesses of Early Greece: A Collection of Pre-Hellenic Myths
- The Spiritual Dimension of Green Politics
External Links
- Charlene Spretnak's web site
- Women and Spirituality
- Works by or about Charlene Spretnak in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
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