Wicca : history, belief, and community in modern pagan witchcraft
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- ISBN: 9781845197544 (hbk : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 1845197542 (hbk : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9781845197551 (pbk : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 1845197550 (pbk : alk. paper)
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viii, 275 pages ; 24 cm - Publisher: Brighton ; Chicago : Sussex Academic Press, 2016.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-263) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The craft of the pagan witches -- Wiccan history -- Origins and inspiration -- Gerald Gardner -- Gardner's early rivals -- Wicca in the USA -- Feminism, gay lib, and the eco-warriors -- The Charmed generation -- Belief and praxes -- Wicca as witchcraft -- Wiccan theology -- The coven and the solitary -- Magic and morality -- Wiccan ritual -- The wheel of the year -- Birth, death, and afterlife -- Wiccan life -- Converting to the craft -- The Wiccan community -- Wiccan culture -- The study of Wicca. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Wicca : History, Belief and Community in Modern Pagan Witchcraft
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Wicca : History, Belief and Community in Modern Pagan Witchcraft
The past century has born witness to a growing interest in the belief systems of ancient Europe, with an array of contemporary Pagan groups claiming to revive these old ways for the needs of the modern world. By far the largest and best known of these Paganisms has been Wicca, a new religious movement that can now count hundreds of thousands of adherents worldwide. Emerging from the occult milieu of mid twentieth-century Britain, Wicca was first presented as the survival of an ancient pre-Christian Witch-Cult, whose participants assembled in covens to venerate their Horned God and Mother Goddess, to celebrate seasonal festivities, and to cast spells by the light of the full moon. Spreading to North America, where it diversified under the impact of environmentalism, feminism, and the 1960s counter-culture, Wicca came to be presented as a Goddess-centred nature religion, in which form it was popularised by a number of best-selling authors and fictional television shows. Today, Wicca is a maturing reli