{"id":12197,"date":"2021-04-20T11:42:46","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T17:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12197"},"modified":"2021-04-20T11:42:46","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T17:42:46","slug":"lucifer-women-witches-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12197","title":{"rendered":"Lucifer, Women, Witches, Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Here Caroline Tully offers a detailed review<\/a> of Satanic Feminism: Lucifer as the Liberator of Women in Nineteenth-Century Culture<\/a> <\/em>by Per Faxneld.<\/a><\/p>\n

This is more a literary than a religious Satanism, although any story of Satan has its religious underpinnings:<\/p>\n

Although they attributed positive qualities to the figure of Satan, the subjects examined in this book were not satanists as commonly imagined; that is, they were not believers in a supernatural being called Satan and did not perform rituals dedicated to him. Rather, as Faxneld explains, they were satanists sensu lato<\/em> (in the broad sense); they used Satan as a symbol to critique Christianity, its accompanying conservative social mores, and patriarchy. Theistic and ritualizing satanism, on the other hand, is termed here sensu stricto <\/em>(in the strict sense). Thus, the book is not about satanism as a religious practice but as a \u201cdiscursive strategy\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There is a chapter on “Satanic” witchcraft:<\/p>\n

One of the most prominent examples of the negative association between women and Satan was the figure of the witch. In chapter 6, Faxneld investigates works such as Jules Michelet\u2019s La Sorci\u00e8re <\/em>(E. Dentu Libraire-Editeur, 1862), arguably \u201cthe single most influential text presenting a sort of feminist version of witches\u201d (198). Relevant to new religious movements today, Michelet\u2019s ideas about witches influenced authors who in turn were used as sources in the construction of modern pagan witchcraft. Feminist Matilda Joslyn Gage interpreted witches as satanic rebels against the injustices of patriarchy; and amateur folklorist Charles Godfrey Leland\u2019s work Aradia; or, the Gospel of the Witches<\/em> <\/a>(1899), which presented witches as proto-feminist rebels against social oppression, continues to hold an authoritative position within the contemporary pagan witchcraft movement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This review and many others can be found at Reading Religion<\/em>, an ongoing collection of book reviews provided by the American Academy of Religion<\/a>. You do not have to be an AAR member to read them, although a member login is required to comment on reviews.<\/p>\n

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