The newest issue of The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies, has been published online and is at the printer.
Book reviews may be downloaded free. There is a charge for longer articles — or request them (after an interval) from your library’s interlibrary loan service.
Table of Contents:
Essay “Pagan Studies: In Defense of Pluralism” by Douglas Ezzy
“Impediments to Practice in Contemporary Paganism” by Gwendolyn Reece
“’You Took My Spirit Captive among the Leaves’: The Creation of Blodeuwedd in Re-Imaginings of the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi” by Cara Bartels-Bland
“Conversion as Colonization: Pagan Reconstructionism and Ethnopsychiatry by Anne Ferlat
Field Report: “The Cult of Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous Gods in Brazilian Wicca: Symbols and Practices” by Daniela Cordovil
Book Reviews
Douglas Ezzy, Sex, Death and Witchcraft: A Contemporary Pagan Festival (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014), 204 pp., $112 (hardback).
Jodie Ann Vann
Graham Harvey, ed., The Handbook of Contemporary Animism (Durham: Acumen, 2013), 544 pp., $44.95 (paper), $140 (cloth).
Susan Greenwood
John Bodel and Saul M. Olyan, eds., Household and Family Religion in Antiquity (Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008), 346 pp., $50.95 (paper).
Caroline J. Tully
I love the cover! Beautiful drawing (and not photoshopped either!)
Mark Lee, the book designer at Equinox, created that cover when Equinox took over The Pomegranate in 2004. I do like his work.
Most of the libraries around here that subscribe to The Pomegranate, get it only as part of a huge package deal from the American Theological Library Association (ATLA). But ATLA has not provided any issues since 2012. My efforts to find out from ATLA why this is so have been in vain. Has ATLa dropped The Pomegranate? (It’s not even indexing it now.) Or has Equinox been remiss in supplying the journal to ATLA? Can you find out from Equinox what is going on here, Chas?
That is above my pay grade, so I will kick your question over to Sheffield. Possibly ATLA is behind on indexing, but 2012?
Thank you, Chas! I look forward to hearing what you find out.
Chas, it seems as though the problem is with an interface somewhere in the ATLA – Library world. I just now discovered that I can access any Pomegranate article through something called “The ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials,” to which Brown subscribes. This is despite Brown’s own catalogue (like Harvard’s) indicating that electronic access to The Pomegranate stops with the volume for 2012.
Also this from our man at ATLA:
We’re sorry that anyone had trouble finding the issues. We have actually delivered the first issue from 2014 of Pomegranate to EBSCO, as well as the full text. There is unfortunately a bug in the Publications Tool that is preventing that journal from being searched properly (EBSCO is trying to resolve that), but you can find it if you do the following search on the advanced search page:
–Set publication year to 2014 (or enter range of 2014 to 2014)
–Enter JN “Pomegranate” into the search box
That should retrieve the first issue of 2014.
Meanwhile, we will post the full text for the second issue from 2014 once it has been indexed.