Cultures & Languages A Community of Witches: Contemporary Neo-Paganism and Witchcraft in the United States (1570032467)

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A Community of Witches: Contemporary Neo-Paganism and Witchcraft in the United States

(Studies in Comparative Religion) By Helen A. Berger

A Community of Witches explores the beliefs and practices of Neo-Paganism and Witchcraft - generally known to scholars and practitioners as Wicca. While the words "magic," "witchcraft," and "paganism" evoke images of the distant past and remote cultures, this book shows that Wicca has emerged as part of a new religious movement that reflects the era in which it developed. Imported to the United States in the late 1960s from the United Kingdom, the religion absorbed into its basic fabric the social concerns of the time: feminism, environmentalism, self-development, alternative spirituality, and mistrust of authority. Helen A. Berger's ten-year participant observation study of Neo-Pagans and Witches on the eastern seaboard of the United States and her collaboration on a national survey of Neo-Pagans form the basis for exploring the practices, structures, and transformation of this nascent religion. Responding to scholars who suggest that Neo-Paganism is merely a pseudoreligion or a cultural movement because it lacks central authority and clear boundaries, Berger contends that Neo-Paganism has many of the characteristics that one would expect of a religion born in late modernity: the appropriation of rituals from other cultures, a view of the universe as a cosmic whole, an emphasis on creating and re-creating the self, an intertwining of the personal and the political, and a certain playfulness.

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	History/Military Early Modern Witches: Witchcraft Cases in Contemporary Writing Marion Gibson, "Early Modern Witches"Routledge \| 2001-01-16 \| ISBN: 041521579X \| 352 pages \| PDF \| 1,2 MBThe sixteen examples collected here describe fifteen English witchcraft cases in detail, vividly recreating events to give the reader t ...
	Science/Engineering Gun Control in the United States: A Reference Handbook (Contemporary World Issues) Gregg Carter, "Gun Control in the United States"Publisher: ABC-CLIO \| 2006-06-06 \| ISBN 1851097600 \| PDF \| 408 pages \| 1.3 MBFrom the history and nature of gun violence in the U.S. to issues affecting gun rights, control, and distribution, ...
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