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The sign of the witch : modernity and the pagan revival / by David Waldron
Bib ID 4400682
Format BookBook
Author
Waldron, David
 
Description Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2008 
xxiv, 264 p. ; 23 cm. 
ISBN 9781594605055 (alk. paper)  159460505X (alk. paper) 
Series

Carolina Academic Press ritual studies monographs.

Full contents
  • The historical context of witchcraft beliefs : progenitors and antecedents
  • The end of witchcraft : the Enlightenment and the supernatural
  • Romanticism and the pagan revival
  • Gerald Gardner and the origins of wicca
  • Witchcraft and the European occult milieu
  • New Age witches : neo-paganism and the sixties counter culture
  • Eco-feminist neo-paganism : marginalization and romanticism
  • Eclectic paganism : the old religion in a post-modern age
  • Commodified paganism : where to from here?
  • Conclusion: The old religion in a post modern age.
 
Notes

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-258).

Subjects Witchcraft.  |  Wicca.  |  Neopaganism.

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