{"product_id":"witching-culture-9780812218794","title":"Witching Culture","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking 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.\u003cbr\u003eMagliocco analyzes magical practices and rituals of Neo-Paganism as art forms that reanimate the cosmo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Magliocco impressively corrals the diverse writings and experiences of U.S. neo-pagans into this highly readable and deeply researched ethnographic study. . . . Highly recommended.\" * \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Ethnography of Magic and the Magic of Ethnography\u003cbr\u003e PART I. ROOTS AND BRANCHES\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. The Study of Folklore and the Reclamation of Paganism\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Boundaries and Borders: Imagining Community\u003cbr\u003e PART II. RELIGIONS OF EXPERIENCE\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Making Magic: Training the Imagination\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Ritual: Between the Worlds\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. \"The Juice of Ritual\": Pathways to Ecstasy\u003cbr\u003e PART III. BEYOND EXPERIENCE: RELIGION AND IDENTITY\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. The Romance of Subdominance: Creating Oppositional Culture\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. \"The Heart Is the Only Nation\": Neo-Paganism, Ethnic Identity and the Construction of Authenticity\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405694542167,"sku":"9780812218794","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812218794.jpg?v=1730493303","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/witching-culture-9780812218794","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}