Dr. Kerry Noonan will talk about the commonalities among related spiritual movements that have emerged in the last thirty years, variously called Earth-Based Spiritualities or Neopaganism. She will also look at the distinctive features that differentiate them from each other, what these traditions have to teach us today, and how they dovetail with Unitarian Universalist principles. Dr. Noonan earned a Ph.D. in Folklore and Mythology from UCLA, has been following the path of the Goddess in earth-based spirituality for almost twenty years, and is ordained through Temple of Diana, a feminist religious organization dedicated to women and the Goddess. She teaches at UCLA and Cal State Northridge.