Coming to the Edge of the Circle A Wiccan Initiation Ritual

Name: Coming to the Edge of the Circle A Wiccan Initiation Ritual
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ISBN: 9780195166453

ISBN-10: 0195166450

ISBN-13: 9780195166453

Edition: 2005

Authors: Nikki Bado-Fralick

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This book offers an ethnographic study of the initiation ritual practiced by one coven of Witches located in Ohio. The participants are members of the religious community that describes itself as Wicca, the Old Religion, or the Craft. Within this community, initiation is seen both as the ceremony through which an individual becomes a member of the community and as a central transformative religious experience, expressed through performance and bodily praxis. In addition tocontributing to our knowledge of this secretive religious movement, Nikki Bado-Fralick's analysis of the Wiccan initiation ceremony offers an important challenge to the commonly accepted anthropological model of "rites of…

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List price: $48.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/4/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 200
Size: 9.09" wide x 6.30" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English




Dancing between binary poles : life as a scholar-practitioner



Stumbling toward wisdom



The Merry Circle



The path toward the circle



The rite of dedication : getting behind the wheel



Coming to the edge of the circle



Concluding remarks


Epilogue : she changes everything she touches