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The sign of the witch : modernity and the pagan revival / by David Waldron.
Van Pelt Library BF1562.5 .W35 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Waldron, David.
- Series:
- Carolina Academic Press ritual studies monographs
- Carolina Academic Press ritual studies monograph series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Witchcraft.
- Wicca.
- Neopaganism.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 264 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- The historical context of witchcraft beliefs : progenitors and antecedents
- The end of witchcraft : the Enlightenment and the supernatural
- Romanticism and the pagan revival
- Gerald Gardner and the origins of wicca
- Witchcraft and the European occult milieu
- New Age witches : neo-paganism and the sixties counter culture
- Eco-feminist neo-paganism : marginalization and romanticism
- Eclectic paganism : the old religion in a post-modern age
- Commodified paganism : where to from here?
- Conclusion: The old religion in a post modern age.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-258) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781594605055
- 159460505X
- OCLC:
- 181827323
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