Resit Ergener

Resit Ergener is a poet, academic and organizer of cultural tours in Turkey. He was born in Istanbul in 1952. He attended high school at the Robert Academy in Istanbul and he attended college at Yale where he received a BA degree in economics. He also received an MPhil in economics at the University of Oxford and a Doctorate's in economics from Istanbul University. He has taught for about forty years at the International Trade department of Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, full time during the first twenty years and part time during remaining twenty. As a part time scholar he has explored the relationship between economics and religion and he has written a book on the subject. He has also published a book of poetry. One theme which has interested him continuously is the goddess and how throughout history women's power has trailed far behind those of the goddesses. In his recent book Men and Women Gods and Goddesses Resit Ergener combines his academic and poetic skills to explore why the women power has trailed behind goddess power and suggests ways to overcome that. For more than thirty years, he has also been exploring the same theme on tours on the "Trail of the Mother Goddess in Anatolia," which he initiated and which aree the first "goddess tours" ever.