190 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
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Routledge
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What is Wicca? Is it witchcraft, Paganism, occultism, esotericism, magic, spirituality, mysticism, nature religion, secrecy, gnosis, the exotic or 'other'? Wicca has been defined by and explored within all these contexts over the past thirty years by anthropologists, sociologists and historians, but there has been a tendency to sublimate and negate the role of Christianity in Wicca's... Read more
Preface 1.Introduction 2. Episcopi Vagantes and Heterodox Christianity 3. Churches Gnostic and Agnostic 4. Rediscovering Ritual 5. Inappropriate Sexuality? Sex Magic, S/M, and Ritual Nudity 6. The Magic of the Margins Conclusion Bibliography
Biography
Joanne Pearson, a scholar of contemporary wicca and its history, is author of A Popular Dictionary of Paganism (Routledge, 2002) and editor of Nature Religion Today: Paganism in the Modern World (1998) and Belief Beyond Boundaries:Wicca, Celtic Spirituality and the New Age (2002).
'This is an exciting, interesting and original book, with a unique perspective on both modern witchcraft and modern Christianity.' - Ronald Hutton, University of Bristol, UK
