{"id":10167,"date":"2019-01-17T16:04:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T23:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10167"},"modified":"2019-01-17T21:53:40","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T04:53:40","slug":"a-texas-witch-on-trial-now-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10167","title":{"rendered":"“A Texas Witch on Trial” Now Published"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A lonely farmstead in the cotton fields of the Texas Panhandle became the site of Halloween harassment and possible murder.<\/p><\/div>\n

In August 2016, I mused about having a Contemporary Pagan Studies on “Paganism and Violence” at the American Academy of Religion annual meeting<\/a>, inspired by a recent gift of multiple cartons of archival material related to the murder trial of a prominent Wiccan figure in 1980.<\/p>\n

The universe was listening, but gave my thought a different spin. As I wrote last fall in a post called “Feeding My Little Archives to Bigger Ones,<\/a>” instead of a conference panel session, I was asked by Massimo Introvigne<\/a>, a leading scholar of new religious movements (NRMs) to contribute to a special issue of the Journal of Religion and Violence<\/em> with the theme of NRMs and violence.<\/p>\n

Finally, there was the venue for an article that I had messed around with since the mid-2000s.<\/p>\n

“A Texas Witch on Trail has now been published in the Journal of Religion and Violence <\/em>and is available to subscribers \u2014 or to people who know how to make an interlibrary loan request.<\/a><\/p>\n

I have also uploaded the paper to Academia.edu for those who use that site<\/a> \u2014 the journal permits uploading a ms. in Word format, but not the final PDF.<\/p>\n

Yes, there is one obvious question that I will not answer in print. And now to deal with those archives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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