{"id":2741,"date":"2011-06-06T12:51:11","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T18:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2741"},"modified":"2011-06-06T13:08:39","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T19:08:39","slug":"ronald-hutton-responds-to-his-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2741","title":{"rendered":"Ronald Hutton Responds to His Critics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even before his interview with Australian scholar\/blogger Caroline Tully,<\/a> Ronald Hutton had written a lengthy article for The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies<\/em> titled “Writing the History of Witchcraft:<\/strong> A Personal View.”<\/p>\n

It is now available as a free download<\/a> from Equinox Publishing.<\/p>\n

In it, Professor Hutton discusses the trajectory of his own work as well as responding to Ben Whitmore’s Trials of the Moon<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n

In the same issue, Peg Aloi reviews Trials of the Moon<\/em><\/a> as well as Douglas Cowan’s Sacred Terror<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

And I review yet another “grandmother story.”<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The other articles in the latest issue (listed below) are behind a pay wall, although if you have access to a university library or to a good public library, they should be available through inter-library loan.<\/p>\n

“The Idol and the Numinous: the Pagan Quest for the Holy<\/a>”
\nDominique Beth Wilson<\/em><\/p>\n

“Shamanisms and the Authenticity of Religious Experience<\/a>”
\nSusannah Crockford <\/em><\/p>\n

“Negotiating Gender Essentialism in Contemporary Paganism<\/a>”
\nRegina Smith Oboler<\/em><\/p>\n

“The Meaning of ‘Wicca’: A Study in Etymology, History, and Pagan Politics<\/a>”
\nEthan Doyle White <\/em><\/p>\n

“The Magical Cosmology of Rosaleen Norton<\/a>”
\nNevill Stuart Drury<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Even before his interview with Australian scholar\/blogger Caroline Tully, Ronald Hutton had written a lengthy article for The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies titled “Writing the History of Witchcraft: A Personal View.” It is now available as a free download from Equinox Publishing. 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