{"id":1121,"date":"2009-02-14T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-14T17:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1121"},"modified":"2009-02-14T17:32:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-14T17:32:00","slug":"handbook-of-contemporary-paganism-in-print","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1121","title":{"rendered":"Handbook of Contemporary Paganism in Print"},"content":{"rendered":"

My contributor copy of the new Handbook of Contemporary Paganism<\/a><\/em> from Brill arrived. (You can tell from the price that it is intended primarily for the institutional market.) Here is the table of contents:<\/p>\n

“The Modern Magical Revival,” Nevill Drury<\/a><\/p>\n

“The Influence of Aleister Crowley on Gerald Gardner and the Early Witchcraft Movement,” Henrik Bogdan
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“Earth Day and Afterwards: American Paganism\u2019s Appropriation of \u2018Nature Religion’,” Chas S. Clifton<\/a><\/p>\n

“Re-enchanting the World: A Weberian Analysis of Wiccan Charisma,” Robert Puckett<\/a><\/p>\n

“Contemporary Paganism by the Numbers,” Helen A. Berger<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201c’A Religion Without Converts’ Revisited: Individuals, Identity and Community in Contemporary Paganism,” S\u00ed\u00e2n Reid<\/p>\n

“The Wild Hunt: A Mythological Language of Magic,” Susan Greenwood<\/p>\n

“Reclamation, Appropriation and the Ecstatic Imagination in Modern Pagan Ritual,” Sabina Magliocco<\/a><\/p>\n

“Alchemical Rhythms: Fire Circle Culture and the Pagan Festival,” J. Lawton Winslade<\/a><\/p>\n

“Pagan Theology,” Michael York<\/p>\n

“Drawing Down the Goddess: The Ancient {Female} Deities of Modern Paganism,” Marguerite Johnson<\/a><\/p>\n

“The Return of the Goddess: Mythology, Witchcraft and Feminist Spirituality,” Carole M. Cusack<\/a><\/p>\n

“Witches\u2019 Initiation\u2014A Feminist Cultural Therapeutic?” Jone Salomonsen<\/a><\/p>\n

“Animist Paganism,” Graham Harvey<\/a><\/p>\n

“Heathenry,” Jenny Blain<\/a> and Robert J. Wallis<\/a><\/p>\n

“New\/Old Spiritualities in the West: Neo-Shamans and Neo-Shamanism,” Dawne Sanson<\/p>\n

“Australian Paganisms,” Douglas Ezzy<\/a><\/p>\n

“Celts, Druids and the Invention of Tradition,” James R. Lewis<\/a><\/p>\n

“Magical Children and Meddling Elders: Paradoxical Patterns in Contemporary Pagan Cultural Transmission,” Murphy Pizza<\/a><\/p>\n

“Of Teens and Tomes: The Dynamics of TeenageWitchcraft and Teen Witch Literature,” Hannah E. Johnston<\/p>\n

“Rooted in the Occult Revival: Neo-Paganism\u2019s Evolving Relationship with Popular Media,” Peg Aloi
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“Weaving a Tangled Web? Pagan Ethics and Issues of History, \u2018Race\u2019 and Ethnicity in Pagan Identity,” Ann-Marie Gallagher<\/a><\/p>\n

“\u2018Sacred\u2019 Sites, Artefacts and Museum Collections: Pagan Engagements with Archaeology in Britain, “Robert J. Wallis<\/a> and Jenny Blain<\/a><\/p>\n

“Wolf Age Pagans,” Mattias Gardell<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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My contributor copy of the new Handbook of Contemporary Paganism from Brill arrived. (You can tell from the price that it is intended primarily for the institutional market.) Here is the table of contents: “The Modern Magical Revival,” Nevill Drury “The Influence of Aleister Crowley on Gerald Gardner and the Early Witchcraft Movement,” Henrik Bogdan“Earth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5,4,6],"class_list":["post-1121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-paganism","tag-scholarship","tag-wicca"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-i5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6232,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6232","url_meta":{"origin":1121,"position":0},"title":"Contemporary Pagan Studies Group’s Call for Papers","author":"Chas S. 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