Published articles, essays, books and blogs by Mary Beth Moser:
- “Submerged Spirituality in the Italian Alps: Goddesses, Ancestresses, and Women’s Ritual in the Archeological Record “ published in The Land Remembers Us: Women, Myth and Nature, Volume 3, Proceedings of the Association of the Study of Women and Mythology, co-edited by Mary Jo Neitz and Sid Reger (Women and Myth Press, 2020)
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“I SO enjoyed your entire essay—so fascinating, informative, provocative, and spiritual. What an astonishing piece of writing. I think I have probably read the second paragraph 20 times. Your writing is so lyrical and powerful and seminal and inspiring and meaningful.” – Dan Zadra, Trentino American author, founder of Compendium Inc Publishing and Zadra Creative
. - “Wild Women of the Waters: Remembering the Anguane of the Italian Alps“ published in Myths: Shattered and Restored, co-edited by Marion Dumont and Gayatri Devi (Women and Myth Press, 2016)
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“I loved Mary Beth Moser’s ‘Wild Women of the Waters: Remembering the Anguane of the Italian Alps’; impressed yet again to see such scholarship dedicated to the female point of view, the studious regard for matrifocal priorities. We (globally) hardly have a language to speak of such priorities, because our minds in general have been formed by patrifocal and industrialised, mechanistic frames. This essay is such a beautiful placement of the female as agent, grounded in the traditions and folk stories of Mary Beth’s ancestral place of the Italian Alps. It deserves much contemplation, to re-invoke this authentic magic, manifest in the cycles of life, represented in the hag/witch; a wisdom that had almost disappeared over time largely due to christianisation.” – Glenys Livingstone Ph.D., Mago E*Magazine
. - “Moonbeams of Mystery“ published in She Rises Volume 2 (Mago Books, June, 2016) Helen Hye-Sook Hwang (Editor), Mary Ann Beavis (Editor), Nicole Shaw (Editor)
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- The Everyday Spirituality of Women in the Italian Alps: A Trentino American Woman’s Search for Spiritual Agency, Folk Wisdom, and Ancestral Values (ProQuest, 2013)
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“Complimenti on your dissertation which I enjoyed thoroughly! I finally just finished reading your dissertation (every word of it) and found it very interesting. I became totally involved in the stories of the Anguane and the Comare. You write beautifully and with much conviction.” – Dr. Cristina Biaggi, Artist, Author of Habitations of the Great Goddess, and In the Footsteps of the Goddess
“While [this book] explores the cultural and spiritual traditions of Trentino — a region in northern Italy that is the motherland of Moser’s grandmothers — the truths that it unearths transcend location and contribute to the ongoing effort to reclaim the story of women’s culture and spiritual agency across time and space. Moser views everyday acts — like cooking, doing the laundry, preparing and administering medicinal remedies to tend to the sick, raising children, building and sustaining nurturing relationships with other humans, as well as with animals and plants — as rituals of renewal and transformation; she names women as both midwives and mourners who embody the sacred continuity of life and death. As oracular sibyls, women see into the future; as grandmothers and wise women they remember the past, protect sacred knowledge, and pass on values to the next generation.” – Mary Saracino, poet, author, Italian American writer and scholar
“I have learned so much and I feel so enriched, and I appreciate nature and the people and things that you’ve written about so much more as a result of having read your truly great work. . . thank you!!!” – Adam L. Stone, Jungian Therapist
“Extraordinary research project. My accolades on your Ph.D. accomplishment. I learned so much Trentino history plus the folklore. I especially resonated with the plant, food and textile sections.” – Ester Bugna, Trentino American
. - “The Motherline: Laundry, Lunedi, and Women’s Lineage“ in She is Everywhere! Volume 3, co-edited by Mary Beth Moser and Mary Saracino (iUniverse 2012)
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She Is Everywhere! Volume 3 was honored as one of the hundred “Best New Books in Women’s Spirituality” at the Women Rising Conference, to be included in the Women’s Spirituality 25th Anniversary Library Collection at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.
She Is Everywhere! Volume 3 was awarded the Enheduanna Award for Excellence in Women-Centered Literature, Sofia University (formerly Institute of Transpersonal Psychology), April 2013.
. - Honoring Darkness: Exploring the Power of Black Madonnas in Italy (DEA MADRE Publishing, 2008)
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- “Litany of the Black Madonna” in Talking to Goddess – Powerful Voices from Many Traditions edited by D’vorah J. Grenn, Ph.D.
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- “Blood Relics: Menstrual Roots of Miraculous Black Madonnas in Italy“ published in Metaformia, a Journal of Menstruation and Culture
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- “Hidden No More: The Black Madonna Adonai of Sicily” published in She Is Everywhere (iUniverse 2005)
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- Guest Contributor to Return to Mago – Magoism, the Way of WE in S/HE
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- Guest Contributor to Feminism and Religion
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- Blog entries at DEA MADRE
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