{"id":11025,"date":"2019-11-18T19:44:46","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T02:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11025"},"modified":"2019-11-18T19:52:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T02:52:06","slug":"a-new-book-in-the-pagan-studies-series-on-pagan-aspects-of-pizzica-in-southern-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11025","title":{"rendered":"A New Book for the Pagan Studies Series on Pagan Aspects of Pizzica in Southern Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A year ago I photographed Jefferson Calico (r.), author of Being Viking: Heathenism in Contemporary America <\/em><\/a>with Giovanna Parmigiani, a visitor to the Equinox Publishing<\/a> booth at the American Academy of Religion-Society of Biblical Literature joint book show at their annual meetings in Denver, Colorado.<\/p>\n

I am happy to say that Giovanna has now signed a contract with us in the Contemporary and Historical Paganism series<\/a> for her new book, which has a working title of The Spider Dance: Tradition, Time, and Healing in Southern Italy. <\/em>A little piece of it is in the current issue of The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies<\/em> as “Spiritual Pizzica: A Southern Italian Perspective on Contemporary Paganism<\/a>.”((If you do not want to buy access to the article, have you talked to your friendly inter-library loan librarian?))<\/p>\n

Q:\u00a0 Two books is a “series”?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: It is more complicated than that.<\/strong> The series was originally published by AltaMira Press, a division of Roman & Littlefield, an American publisher. The first book in the series was Barbara Davy’s (a Canadian scholar) Introduction to Pagan Studies\u00a0<\/a><\/em>(2007), followed by my book\u00a0Her Hidden Children: The Rise of Wicca and Paganism in America<\/em> <\/a>(2006).((Wait, you say, those numbers are out of sequence. All I can say is that Barb’s was actually printed first.)) There were others in the series, some acquired by my first co-editor, Wendy Griffin.<\/a><\/p>\n

Wendy stepped down, and was replaced by the late Nikki Bado<\/a>. Meanwhile, editorial changes at Rowman left Nikki and me looking for another home. We quickly found one at Equinox, which was already publishing The Pomegranate. <\/em>Nikki and I brought in more books, including Pop Pagans: Paganism and Popular Music<\/em><\/a> and Modern Pagan and Native Faith Movements in Central and Eastern Europe<\/em><\/a>, whose co-editor, Scott Simpson, stepped up to replace Nikki after her death and continues as series co-editor now.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, there was a merger, a de-merger, and a sale, and those books in the “Series in Contemporary and Historical Paganism” ended up with Routledge, who discontinued the series. Meanwhile, we carried on with Equinox, starting over from scratch, more or less.<\/p>\n

Q: What does pizzica sound like?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A: Try this (it’s kind of a formal performance):<\/strong><\/p>\n