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Contemporary paganism: religions of the earth from Druids and witches to heathens and ecofeminists
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New York University Press
Publication Date
c2011
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English
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From the Book - 2nd ed.
1. Celebrating the seasons
Samhain
Midwinter
Imbolc
Spring Equinox
Beltain
Summer Solstice
Lughnasadh or Lammas
Autumn Equinox or the full circle
Lunar rhythms
Star signs
Calendar months
Listening people, speaking Earth
2. Druidry
Bards
Ovates
Druids
Grades, hierarchies and Druid time
Stonehenge
3. The craft of witches
The charge of the goddess
Drawing down the moon
Polarity and sexuality
Nature
Into the circle
Using energy
Cakes and wine
Open and closed groups
Types of Wicca
Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick
New old religion
4. Heathens
Northern cosmology
The Nine Worlds now
Festivals (time and place)
Priests and people
Runes : galdr, seidr and taufr
Ecology
Race
Gods and goddesses
Pride and prejudice
5. Goddess spirituality
Avalon from the mists
History and herstory
goddess and goddesses
Manifestations of matriarchy
Circles empower
Contrary voices
Impact on other pagans
Liberation thealogy
6. Magic
Esotericism
Gnosis
The colours of magic
Ceremonial magic
Left-hand path magick
Chaos magick
Signs and symbols
Natural kitchen magic
Eco-magic
The web
The ethics of magic
Attentive scepticism
7. Shamanism
From Siberia with power
Raves in Cyberia
Experimenting with ecstasy.
8. Ecology
Meditation and bulldozers
Somatic ecology
Ecological roots
Shades of green
Gnostic temptation
Hedgehogs, vegans, hunters and prairies
Listening neighbourliness
9. Earth mysteries
Gaia
Micro- and macro-cosmos
Ley and dragon lines
Sacred sites
Terrestrial zodiacs
Sacred geometry
Geomancy
Earth healing
Dragons and rituals
The sound of what happens
10. Gods and hedgehogs in the Greenwood
Religion and theology
The Greenwood
The Otherworld
Pagan deity-talk
Animists and atheists
Ancestors and animals
Faeries, elves and others
Hobgoblins and foul fiends
Pagans in the Greenwood
Theology within ecology
11. History, sources and influences
History and folklore
Mythology, archaeology and anthropology
first nations
Fantasy and future fiction
Discworld
Nature
Experience and intuition
Beyond the enlightenment
Old religion or new religion?
Coming home and coming out
12. Rites of passage
From room to room
Life cycles
Paganism and rites of passage
Child blessing
Marriage
Funerals and remembrance of the dead
Initiation
Male mysteries
Passages to health
Paganism as therapy
13. Paganism and other religions
Authority
Inter-faith dialogue
Paganism misunderstood
dealing with defamation
14. Studying paganisms
Pagan teenagers
Ethnic pagans
Performative and material culture
Mystical magical socialising
Ethics
Paganisms and modernism
Researching paganisms.
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9780814790618
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