D’vorah J. Grenn
- Ph. D., Humanities, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2002
- M.A., Humanities, New College of California, 1998
- B. A., Integral Studies, California Institute of Integral Studies 1996
D’vorah J. Grenn, Ph. D., Ph.D. is founder and director of The Lilith Institute (1997) and Voice of the Spirit (1998), a San Francisco Bay Area women's spirituality/study circle and lecture series. She is co-director and core faculty in the Women's Spirituality MA Program at Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto, California, and founding kohenet/priestess of Mishkan Shekhinah (2007), a movable sanctuary honoring the Sacred Feminine in all spiritual traditions. Dr. Grenn’s dissertation, “For She Is A Tree of Life: Shared Roots Connecting Women to Deity” was an inquiry into Jewish women’s religious/cultural identities, beliefs and ritual practices among the South African Lemba and United States women. Her other writings include Lilith’s Fire: Reclaiming our Sacred Lifeforce (Universal Publishers, 2000); “Claiming The Title Kohenet: Examining Goddess Judaism and the Role of the Priestess” – A paper presented at “Women and the Divine” Conference, Liverpool and later published in the Women in Judaism Multidisciplinary Journal, 2008.
Her most recent book is an anthology of the sacred writings of 72 women from 25 different spiritual traditions: Talking To Goddess, a collection of blessings, prayer-poems, chants, meditations and invocations (available through www.lulu.com.) Her ongoing work explores the role of the ancient and contemporary priestess, women’s contemporary ritual practices and social, spiritual and political change being created by the women of South Africa.
