Triumph of the Moon A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft

Name: Triumph of the Moon A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft
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ISBN: 9780198207443

ISBN-10: 0198207441

ISBN-13: 9780198207443

Edition: 1999

Authors: Ronald Hutton

List price: $165.00

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Ronald Hutton is known for his colourful, provocative, and always exhaustively researched, studies on original subjects. This work is no exception: the first full-scale scholarly study of the only religion England has ever given the world, that of modern pagan witchcraft, which has now spread from English shores across four continents. Hutton examines the nature of that religion and its development, and offers a microhistory of attitudes to paganism, witchcraft, and magic in British society since 1800. Village cunning folk and Victorian ritual magicians, classicists and archaeologists, leaders of woodcraft and scouting movements, Freemasons and members of rural secret societies, all appear…

Book details

List price: $165.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/16/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 502
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.13" long x 1.22" tall
Weight: 1.782



Macrocosm



Finding a Language



Finding a Goddess



Finding a God



Finding a Structure



Finding a High Magic



Finding a Low Magic



Finding a Folklore



Finding a Witchcraft



Matrix



God (and Goddess) Parents


Microcosm



Gerald Gardner



Gerald's People



The Wider Context: Hostility



The Wider Context: Reinforcement



Old Craft, New Craft



The Man in Black



Royalty from the North



Uncle Sam and the Goddess



Coming of Age



Grandchildren of the Shadows


Notes


Index