Contemporary Pagan and Native Faith Movements in Europe : : Colonialist and Nationalist Impulses / / ed. by Kathryn Rountree.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Amster, Matthew H.,; Butler, Jenny,; Ciancimino Howell, Francesca,; Fedele, Anna,; Gregorius, Fredrik,; Gulik, Léon A. van,; Hegner, Victoria,; Kraft, Siv Ellen,; Peers, Eleanor,; Rountree, Kathryn,; Szilágyi, Tamás,; Velkoborská, Kamila,; Västrik, Ergo-Hart,
• HerausgeberIn: Rountree, Kathryn,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: EASA Series ; 26
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (326 p.)

Pagan and Native Faith movements have sprung up across Europe in recent decades, yet little has been published about them compared with their British and American counterparts. Though all such movements valorize human relationships with nature and embrace polytheistic cosmologies, practitioners’ beliefs, practices, goals, and agendas are diverse. Often side by side are groups trying to reconstruct ancient religions motivated by ethnonationalism—especially in post-Soviet societies—and others attracted by imported traditions, such as Wicca, Druidry, Goddess Spirituality, and Core Shamanism. Drawing on ethnographic cases, contributors explore the interplay of neo-nationalistic and neo-colonialist impulses in contemporary Paganism, showing how these impulses play out, intersect, collide, and transform.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction. Context Is Everything: Plurality and Paradox in Contemporary European Paganisms -- 1 Sami Neo-shamanism in Norway: Colonial Grounds, Ethnic Revival and Pagan Pathways -- 2 It’s Not Easy Being Apolitical: Reconstruction and Eclecticism in Danish Asatro -- 3 Modern Heathenism in Sweden: A Case Study in the Creation of a Traditional Religion -- 4 The Brotherhood of Wolves in the Czech Republic: From Ásatrú to Primitivism -- 5 Soviet-Era Discourse and Siberian Shamanic Revivalism: How Area Spirits Speak through Academia -- 6 In Search of Genuine Religion: The Contemporary Estonian Maausulised Movement and Nationalist Discourse -- 7 Emerging Identity Markets of Contemporary Pagan Ideologies in Hungary -- 8 Hot, Strange, Völkisch, Cosmopolitan: Native Faith and Neopagan Witchcraft in Berlin’s Changing Urban Context -- 9 Paganism in Ireland: Syncretic Processes, Identity and a Sense of Place -- 10 On the Sticks and Stones of the Greencraft Temple in Flanders: Balancing Global and Local Heritage in Wicca -- 11 Iberian Paganism: Goddess Spirituality in Spain and Portugal and the Quest for Authenticity -- 12 Bellisama and Aradia: Paganism Re-emerges in Italy -- 13 Authenticity and Invention in the Quest for a Modern Maltese Paganism -- List of Contributors -- Index