{"id":10422,"date":"2019-04-28T13:46:46","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T19:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10422"},"modified":"2019-04-28T15:37:31","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T21:37:31","slug":"a-festschrift-for-ronald-hutton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10422","title":{"rendered":"A Festschrift for Ronald Hutton"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

\"\"<\/a>Magic and Witchery: Celebrating the Twentieth Anniversary of ‘The Triumph of the Moon’ <\/em>will be published in September by Palgrave Macmillan.<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I love rolling the word Festschrift around, and if you are not used to it, this is what it means: “In academia, a Festschrift\u00a0 (plural Festschriften) <\/em>is a book honoring a respected person, especially an academic and presented during their lifetime. It generally takes the form of an edited volume, containing contributions from the honoree’s colleagues, former pupils, and friends” (Wikipedia).<\/p>\r\n

From the publisher:<\/p>\r\n

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This book marks twenty years since the publication of Professor Ronald Hutton\u2019s The Triumph of the Moon<\/i>, a major contribution to the historical study of Wicca. Building on and celebrating Hutton\u2019s 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 \u2018Traditional Witchcraft\u2019 phenomenon.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

Here are the contents:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

1. Twenty Years On: An Introduction \u2014 Ethan Doyle White and Shai Feraro, editors<\/p>\r\n

2. The Goddess and the Great Rite: Hindu Tantra and the Complex Origins of Modern Wicca \u2014 Hugh B. Urban<\/p>\r\n

3. Playing the Pipes of PAN: Pagans Against Nukes and the Linking of Wiccan-Derived Paganism with Ecofeminism in Britain, 1980\u20131990 \u2014 Shai Feraro<\/p>\r\n

4. Other Sides of the Moon: Assembling Histories of Witchcraft \u2014Helen Cornish<\/p>\r\n

5. The Nearest Kin of the Moon: Irish Pagan Witchcraft, Magic(k), and the Celtic Twilight \u2014 Jenny Butler<\/p>\r\n

6. The Taming of the Fae: Literary and Folkloric Fairies in Modern Paganisms \u2014 Sabina Magliocco<\/p>\r\n

7. \u201cWild Nature\u201d and the Lure of the Past: The Legacy of Romanticism among Young Pagan Environmentalists \u2014 Sarah M. Pike<\/p>\r\n

8. The Blind Moondial Makers: Creativity and Renewal in Wicca \u2014 L\u00e9on A. van Gulik<\/p>\r\n

9. \u201cThe Eyes of Goats and of Women\u201d: Femininity and the Post-Thelemic Witchcraft of Jack Parsons and Kenneth Grant \u2014 Manon Hedenborg White<\/p>\r\n

10. Navigating the Crooked Path: Andrew D. Chumbley and the Sabbatic Craft \u2014 Ethan Doyle White<\/p>\r\n

11. Witches Still Fly: Or Do They? Traditional Witches, Wiccans, and Flying\u00a0 \u2014 Chas S. Clifton<\/p>\r\n

12. Afterword \u2014 Ronald Hutton<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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