Mother Earth: Revisioning the Sacred
WHO IS MARY R. HOPKINS?
Mary R. Hopkins first studied religion at Smith College, where she received her B.A., and after raising four children, earned her Master's Degree in Social Work at Bryn Mawr College. She has been an active member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) for forty years. As she began searching for deeper answers to her own spiritual questions, she was led to ask why the female point of view and experience wasn't represented in Western culture, particularly in religion and art.
For almost thirty years, Mary Hopkins has been using art history, Jungian theory, and archeology to explore the content of Western culture. Her need to define and articulate women's point of view in religion and art became her life work. In 1990 four videos of her slide lectures were made under the title, Woman and Her Symbols. Hopkins' newest project, Mother Earth: Revisioning the Sacred , is an important and bold work that should be a required part of our children's school curriculum. This thirty-minute documentary is a professionally produced, revised and updated version of her earlier videos.
For further information, Hopkins' papers
are archived at the Friends Historical Library at Swarthmore College.
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