Melissa Raphael is teaches in the fields of religion, feminism, and gender at the University of Gloucestershire and is the author of numerous articles and books including Gender, Idolatry and Alienation; Judaism and the Visual Image: A Jewish Theology of Art; The Female Face of God in Auschwitz: A Jewish Feminist Theology of the Holocaust; Introducing Thealogy: Discourse on the Goddess; Rudolf Otto and the Concept of Holiness; Thealogy and Embodiment:The Post-Patriarchal Reconstruction of Female Sacrality.