A Community of Witches: Contemporary Neo-Paganism and Witchcraft in the United States
by Berger, Helen A
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- In original shrinkwrap, partly opened on bottom edge; remainder mark to bottom edge. Fine in fine jacket thus.
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- ISBN 13
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Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1999. Hardcover. In original shrinkwrap, partly opened on bottom edge; remainder mark to bottom edge. Fine in fine jacket thus.. Quarto in white illus jacket; xviii, 148 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations; 24 cm; bibliographical references (pages 135-142) and index. "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."--Jacket. / Contents: List of illustrations -- Editor's preface -- Preface -- Prologue to the tribe let there be children born -- Background -- The magical self -- The coven: perfect love, perfect trust -- A circle within a circle: the neo-pagan community -- The next generation -- The routinization of creativity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. / Neopaganism -- United States. Witchcraft -- United States. Néopaganisme -- Ãtats-Unis. Sorcellerie -- Ãtats-Unis. Neopaganism. Witchcraft. Hexerei Neuheidentum Hekserij. Neopaganism -- United States. Witchcraft -- United States. Neuheidentum. Hexerei.
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- Bibliope by Calvello Books (US)
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- Title
- A Community of Witches: Contemporary Neo-Paganism and Witchcraft in the United States
- Author
- Berger, Helen A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - In original shrinkwrap, partly opened on bottom edge; remainder mark to bottom edge. Fine in fine jacket thus.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1570032467
- ISBN 13
- 9781570032462
- Publisher
- University of South Carolina Press
- Place of Publication
- Columbia, SC
- Date Published
- 1999
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