Witching Culture : : Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America / / Sabina Magliocco.
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 th...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2010] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Contemporary Ethnography
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: The Ethnography of Magic and the Magic of Ethnography
- Part I. Roots and Branches
- 1. The Study of Folklore and the Reclamation of Paganism
- 2. Boundaries and Borders: Imagining Community
- Part II. Religions of Experience
- 3. Making Magic: Training the Imagination
- 4. Ritual: Between the Worlds
- 5. "The Juice of Ritual": Pathways to Ecstasy
- Part III. Beyond Experience: Religion and Identity
- 6. The Romance of Subdominance: Creating Oppositional Culture
- 7. "The Heart Is the Only Nation": Neo- Paganism, Ethnic Identity, and the Construction of Authenticity
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments