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Witching Culture

Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America

By: Sabina Magliocco

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Witching Culture

Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America

By: 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 this religious movement has in a Western spiritual tradition of mysticism disavowed by the Enlightenment. She explores, too, how modern Pagans and Witches are imaginatively reclaiming discarded practices and beliefs to create religions more in keeping with their personal experience of the world as sacred and filled with meaning. Neo-Pagan religions focus on experience, rather than belief, and many contemporary practitioners have had mystical experiences. They seek a context that normalizes them and creates in them new spiritual dimensions that involve change in ordinary consciousness. Magliocco analyzes magical practices and rituals of Neo-Paganism as art forms that reanimate the cosmos and stimulate the imagination of its practitioners. She discusses rituals that are put together using materials from a variety of cultural and historical sources, and examines the cultural politics surrounding the movement—how the Neo-Pagan movement creates identity by contrasting itself against the dominant culture and how it can be understood in the context of early twenty-first-century identity politics. Witching Culture is the first ethnography of this religious movement to focus specifically on the role of anthropology and folklore in its formation, on experiences that are central to its practice, and on what it reveals about identity and belief in twenty-first-century North America.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812202708

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Neo-pagan Sacred Art and Altars

Making Things Whole

By: Sabina Magliocco

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Making Things Whole

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Mystic meanings behind the flourishing art of modern-day pagans and witches

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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Witching Culture

Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America

By: Sabina Magliocco

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Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America

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Making Things Whole

By: Sabina Magliocco

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Making Things Whole

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Mystic meanings behind the flourishing art of modern-day pagans and witches

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The Taste of American Place

A Reader on Regional and Ethnic Foods

By: Barbara G. Shortridge,James R. Shortridge

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The Taste of American Place

A Reader on Regional and Ethnic Foods

By: Barbara G. Shortridge,James R. Shortridge

Tracing the intertwined roles of food, ethnicity, and regionalism in the construction of American identity, this textbook examines the central role food plays in our lives. Drawing on a range of disciplines_including sociology, anthropology, folklore, geography, history, and nutrition_the editors have selected a group of engaging essays to help students explore the idea of food as a window into American culture. The editors' general introductory essay offers an overview of current scholarship, and part introductions contextualize the readings within each section. This lively reader will be a valuable supplement for courses on American culture across the social sciences.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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1461645786

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Book's by Sabina Magliocco

Witching Culture

Witching Culture

Neo-pagan Sacred Art and Altars

Neo-pagan Sacred Art and Altars

Witching Culture

Witching Culture

Neo-pagan Sacred Art and Altars

Neo-pagan Sacred Art and Altars

The Taste of American Place

The Taste of American Place

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