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A Community of Witches - Contemporary Neo-paganism and Witchcraft in the United States (Hardcover)
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A Community of Witches - Contemporary Neo-paganism and Witchcraft in the United States (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Comparative Religion
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A Community of Witches explores the beliefs and practices of
Neo-Paganism and Witchcraft - generally known to scholars and
practitioners as Wicca. While the words "magic," "witchcraft," and
"paganism" evoke images of the distant past and remote cultures,
this book shows that Wicca has emerged as part of a new religious
movement that reflects the era in which it developed. Imported to
the United States in the late 1960s from the United Kingdom, the
religion absorbed into its basic fabric the social concerns of the
time: feminism, environmentalism, self-development, alternative
spirituality, and mistrust of authority. Helen A. Berger's ten-year
participant observation study of Neo-Pagans and Witches on the
eastern seaboard of the United States and her collaboration on a
national survey of Neo-Pagans form the basis for exploring the
practices, structures, and transformation of this nascent religion.
Responding to scholars who suggest that Neo-Paganism is merely a
pseudoreligion or a cultural movement because it lacks central
authority and clear boundaries, Berger contends that Neo-Paganism
has many of the characteristics that one would expect of a religion
born in late modernity: the appropriation of rituals from other
cultures, a view of the universe as a cosmic whole, an emphasis on
creating and re-creating the self, an intertwining of the personal
and the political, and a certain playfulness.
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