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Magical Religion and Modern Witchcraft »

Authors: James R. Lewis
ISBN-13: 9780791428900, ISBN-10: 0791428907
Format: Paperback
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Date Published: May 1996
Edition: (Non-applicable)

	Introduction	1
1	The Contemporary Neo-Pagan Revival	9
2	Who on Earth is the Goddess?	25
3	Emergent Nature Spirituality: An Examination of the Major Spiritual Contours of the Contemporary Pagan Worldview	35
4	Spells of Transformation: Categorizing Modern Neo-Pagan Witches	75
5	Ritual is My Chosen Art Form: The Creation of Ritual as Folk Art Among Contemporary Pagans	93
6	Forging Magical Selves: Gendered Bodies and Ritual Fires at Neo-Pagan Festivals	121
7	As I Do Will, So Mote It Be: Magic as Metaphor in Neo-Pagan Witchcraft	141
8	White Witches: Historic Fact and Romantic Fantasy	171
9	The Reconstruction of the Asatru and Odinist Traditions	193
10	The Resurgence of Magical Religion as a Response to the Crisis of Modernity: A Postmodern Depth Psychological Perspective	237
11	What has Alexandria to do with Boston? Some Sources of Modern Pagan Ethics	269
12	The British Occult Subculture: Beyond Good and Evil?	277
13	Embracing Jesus and the Goddess: Towards a Reconceptualization of Conversion to Syncretistic Religion	299
14	Where Christian Liturgy and Neo-Pagan Ritual Meet	327
15	Works of Darkness: Occult Fascination in the Novels of Frank E. Peretti	339
16	Rationalizing the Margins: A Review of Legitimation and Ethnographic Practice in Scholarly Research on Neo-Paganism	353
17	Practitioners of Paganism and Wiccan Spirituality in Contemporary Society: A Review of the Literature	373
	Index	407