Ten Years Of Triumph Of The Moon

Author : Dave Evans
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ten Years of Triumph of the Moon written by Dave Evans and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of worldwide scholars with nearly two centuries of hands-on pagan research experience among them presents a collection of researches inspired by, deriving from, or just celebrating the immense impact of Hutton's "Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft."

Author : Eugene V. Gallagher
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315317893
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visioning New and Minority Religions written by Eugene V. Gallagher and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Part I Theoretical perspectives on new and minority religions -- 1 Introduction: projecting the future for new and minority religions -- 2 The changing scene: what might happen and what might be less likely to happen? -- 3 'The silent majority?': understanding apostate testimony beyond 'insider/outsider' binaries in the study of new religions -- 4 Seekership revisited: explaining traffic in and out of new religions -- 5 Economies of love and squalor: fraud and deception in religious milieus -- 6 No leader, no followers: the Internet and the end of charisma? -- 7 A guaranteed future for new religious movements -- Part II International perspectives on the future of specific new religious groups -- 8 The changing face of contemporary Paganism in Britain -- 9 You can't smash the Internet: a historical analysis of the LDS Church's negotiation of technology and how the Internet has changed the rules of the game -- 10 From Japanese Buddhist sect to global citizenship: Soka Gakkai past and future -- 11 Christian Scientists: has-beens or twenty-first century spiritual pioneers? -- 12 Anticipating the future: the growth of practice-oriented spiritualities -- 13 Pop culture-a new source of spirituality? -- 14 A neo-orthodox Buddhist movement in transition: the Diamond Way -- Index

Author : Ethan Doyle White
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1782842535
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wicca written by Ethan Doyle White and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past century has born witness to a growing interest in the belief systems of ancient Europe, with an array of contemporary Pagan groups claiming to revive these old ways for the needs of the modern world. By far the largest and best known of these Paganisms has been Wicca, a new religious movement that can now count hundreds of thousands of adherents worldwide. Emerging from the occult milieu of mid twentieth-century Britain, Wicca was first presented as the survival of an ancient pre-Christian Witch-Cult, whose participants assembled in covens to venerate their Horned God and Mother Goddess, to celebrate seasonal festivities, and to cast spells by the light of the full moon. Spreading to North America, where it diversified under the impact of environmentalism, feminism, and the 1960s counter-culture, Wicca came to be presented as a Goddess-centred nature religion, in which form it was popularised by a number of best-selling authors and fictional television shows. Today, Wicca is a maturing religious movement replete with its own distinct world-view, unique culture, and internal divisions. This book represents the first published academic introduction to be exclusively devoted to this fascinating faith, exploring how this Witches' Craft developed, what its participants believe and practice, and what the Wiccan community actually looks like. In doing so it sweeps away widely-held misconceptions and offers a comprehensive overview of this religion in all of its varied forms. Drawing upon the work of historians, anthropologists, sociologists, and scholars of religious studies, as well as the writings of Wiccans themselves, it provides an original synthesis that will be invaluable for anyone seeking to learn about the blossoming religion of modern Pagan Witchcraft.

Author : Christine Ferguson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351168304
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Occult Imagination in Britain, 1875-1947 written by Christine Ferguson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1875 and 1947, a period bookended, respectively, by the founding of the Theosophical Society and the death of notorious occultist celebrity Aleister Crowley, Britain experienced an unparalleled efflorescence of engagement with unusual occult schema and supernatural phenomena such as astral travel, ritual magic, and reincarnationism. Reflecting the signal array of responses by authors, artists, actors, impresarios and popular entertainers to questions of esoteric spirituality and belief, this interdisciplinary collection demonstrates the enormous interest in the occult during a time typically associated with the rise of secularization and scientific innovation. The contributors describe how the occult realm functions as a turbulent conceptual and affective space, shifting between poles of faith and doubt, the sacrosanct and the profane, the endemic and the exotic, the forensic and the fetishistic. Here, occultism emerges as a practice and epistemology that decisively shapes the literary enterprises of writers such as Dion Fortune and Arthur Machen, artists such as Pamela Colman Smith, and revivalists such as Rolf Gardiner

Author : Eleanor Dobson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786726645
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Egypt in the Modern Imagination written by Eleanor Dobson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Egypt has always been a source of fascination to writers, artists and architects in the West. This book is the first study to address representations of Ancient Egypt in the modern imagination, breaking down conventional disciplinary boundaries between fields such as History, Classics, Art History, Fashion, Film, Archaeology, Egyptology, and Literature to further a nuanced understanding of ancient Egypt in cultures stretching from the eighteenth century to the present day, emphasising how some of the various meanings of ancient Egypt to modern people have traversed time and media. Divided into three themes, the chapters scrutinise different aspects of the use of ancient Egypt in a variety of media, looking in particular at the ways in which Egyptology as a discipline has influenced representations of Egypt, ancient Egypt's associations with death and mysticism, as well as connections between ancient Egypt and gendered power. The diversity of this study aims to emphasise both the multiplicity and the patterning of popular responses to ancient Egypt, as well as the longevity of this phenomenon and its relevance today.

Author : James R. Lewis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190466170
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements written by James R. Lewis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements both covers the current state of the field and breaks new ground. Its contributors, drawn form both sociology and religious studies, are leading figures in the study of NRMs.

Author : Shai Feraro
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030466957
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Gender Issues in British Paganism, 1945–1990 written by Shai Feraro and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ways in which changing views on gender and the place of women in society during the latter half of the twentieth century affected women’s participation and standing within British Paganism. More specifically, it examines how British Wiccans and Wiccan-derived Pagans reacted to the rise of 'second-wave' feminism and the Women's Liberation Movement in the UK – with a special emphasis on the reception of feminist theory hailing from the USA – and to the emergence of feminist branches of Witchcraft and Goddess Spirituality during the 1970s and 1980s. The book draws on primary sources never before analyzed in an academic context and makes a valuable contribution to the growing body of knowledge on gender and religion during the twentieth century, as very little research has been conducted on the relations between the history of modern Paganism and that of second-wave feminism in the UK.

Author : Miriam Wallraven
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317581385
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Writers and the Occult in Literature and Culture written by Miriam Wallraven and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the intersection of occult spirituality, text, and gender, this book provides a compelling analysis of the occult revival in literature from the 1880s through the course of the twentieth century. Bestselling novels such as The Da Vinci Code play with magic and the fascination of hidden knowledge, while occult and esoteric subjects have become very visible in literature during the twentieth century. This study analyses literature by women occultists such as Alice Bailey, Dion Fortune, and Starhawk, and revisits texts with occult motifs by canonical authors such as Sylvia Townsend Warner, Leonora Carrington, and Angela Carter. This material, which has never been analysed in a literary context, covers influential movements such as Theosophy, Spiritualism, Golden Dawn, Wicca, and Goddess spirituality. Wallraven engages with the question of how literature functions as the medium for creating occult worlds and powerful identities, particularly the female Lucifer, witch, priestess, and Goddess. Based on the concept of ancient wisdom, the occult in literature also incorporates topical discourses of the twentieth century, including psychoanalysis, feminism, pacifism, and ecology. Hence, as an ever-evolving discursive universe, it presents alternatives to religious truth claims that often lead to various forms of fundamentalism that we encounter today. This book offers a ground-breaking approach to interpreting the forms and functions of occult texts for scholars and students of literary and cultural studies, religious studies, sociology, and gender studies.

Author : Hugo Letiche
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839106735
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Magic of Organization written by Hugo Letiche and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring magic as a creative necessity in contemporary business, this book clarifies the differences between magic as an organizational resource and magic as fakery, pretence and manipulation. Using this lens, it highlights insights into the relationship between anthropology and business, and organizational studies.

Author : Shai Feraro
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030155498
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Magic and Witchery in the Modern West written by Shai Feraro and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.