Witching Culture Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America

Name: Witching Culture Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America
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ISBN: 9780812218794

ISBN-10: 0812218795

ISBN-13: 9780812218794

Edition: 2004

Authors: Sabina Magliocco

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Taking the reader into the heart of one of the fastest-growing religious movements in North America, Sabina Magliocco reveals how the disciplines of anthropology and folklore were fundamental to the early development of Neo-Paganism and the revival of witchcraft. Magliocco examines the roots that this religious movement has in a Western spiritual tradition of mysticism disavowed by the Enlightenment. She explores, too, how modern Pagans and Witches are imaginatively reclaiming discarded practices and beliefs to create religions more in keeping with their personal experience of the world as sacred and filled with meaning. Neo-Pagan religions focus on experience, rather than belief, and many…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 5/10/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English



Introduction: The Ethnography of Magic and the Magic of Ethnography



Roots and Branches



The Study of Folklore and the Reclamation of Paganism



Boundaries and Borders: Imagining Community



Religions of Experience



Making Magic: Training the Imagination



Ritual: Between the Worlds



"The Juice of Ritual": Pathways to Ecstasy



Beyond Experience: Religion and Identity



The Romance of Subdominance: Creating Oppositional Culture



"The Heart Is the Only Nation": Neo-Paganism, Ethnic Identity, and the Construction of Authenticity


Notes


Bibliography


Index


Acknowledgments