This book marks twenty years since the publication of Professor Ronald Hutton's The Triumph of the Moon, a major contribution to the historical study of Wicca. Building on and celebrating Hutton's pioneering work, the chapters in this volume explore a range of modern magical, occult, and Pagan groups active in Western nations. Each contributor is a specialist in the study of modern Paganism and occultism, although differ in their embrace of historical, anthropological, and psychological perspectives. Chapters examine not only the history of Wicca, the largest and best-known form of modern Paganism, but also modern Pagan environmentalist and anti-nuclear activism, the Pagan interpretation of fairy folklore, and the contemporary 'Traditional Witchcraft' phenomenon.

Presents a range of new and innovative studies on Wicca and related forms of modern occult and Pagan witchcraft Builds upon the pioneering work of Professor Ronald Hutton on modern Western beliefs regarding magic and witchcraft Examines Paganism and occultism from a range of perspectives including historical, anthropological, and psychological ones

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Shai Feraro is Lecturer at the Oranim College of Education, Israel, and the Secretary of the Israeli Association for the Study of Religions. He has published on modern Paganism and Goddess Spirituality in relevant journals and anthologies, and is the co-editor of Contemporary Alternative Spiritualities in Israel (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).

Ethan Doyle White is the author of Wicca: History, Belief, and Community in Modern Pagan Witchcraft (2016), and has published on Wicca, modern Paganism, and related topics in journals such as Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies, and Folklore.

Inhalt

1. Twenty Years On: An Introduction; Ethan Doyle White and Shai Feraro.- 2. The Goddess and the Great Rite: Hindu Tantra and the Complex Origins of Modern Wicca; Hugh B. Urban.- 3. Playing the Pipes of PAN: Pagans Against Nukes and the Linking of Wiccan-Derived Paganism with Ecofeminism in Britain, 19801990; Shai Feraro.- 4. Other Sides of the Moon: Assembling Histories of Witchcraft; Helen Cornish.- 5. The Nearest Kin of the Moon: Irish Pagan Witchcraft, Magic(k), and the Celtic Twilight; Jenny Butler.- 6. The Taming of the Fae: Literary and Folkloric Fairies in Modern Paganisms; Sabina Magliocco.- 7. Wild Nature and the Lure of the Past: The Legacy of Romanticism among Young Pagan Environmentalists; Sarah M. Pike.- 8. The Blind Moondial Makers: Creativity and Renewal in Wicca; Léon A. van Gulik.- 9. The Eyes of Goats and of Women: Femininity and the Post-Thelemic Witchcraft of Jack Parsons and Kenneth Grant; Manon Hedenborg White.- 10. Navigating the Crooked Path: Andrew D. Chumbley and the Sabbatic Craft; Ethan Doyle White.- 11. Witches Still Fly Or Do They? Traditional Witches, Wiccans, and Flying Ointment; Chas S. Clifton.- 12. Afterword; Ronald Hutton.