{"id":3847,"date":"2012-02-23T15:04:34","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T22:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3847"},"modified":"2012-02-25T20:18:31","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T03:18:31","slug":"wicca-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3847","title":{"rendered":"Wicca Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"

M. drew my attention today to the fact that Rocky Mountain PBS (Motto: “All Antiques Roadshow<\/em> all the time.”) was offering another BBC-produced copy show, Wicca Work<\/em>. Typical of RMPBS, they seem to be starting with the third season.<\/p>\n

CORRECTION:<\/strong> The series is New Tricks, <\/em>the episode is “Wicca Work.” (Thanks, first commenter.)<\/p>\n

The description <\/a>of the series says,<\/p>\n

They may have handed in their badges and started collecting their pensions years ago, but Lane, Standing and Halford are back for a third and fourth series, still working at the London Metropolitan Police as civilians investigating unsolved crimes as part of boss Pullman’s team, Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad (UCOS). Led by Pullman, who spends half her time trying to rein them in, the three men investigate an array of challenging and disturbing crimes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What, if anything, is the significance of the title? Is this just another case of Wicca being the new black?<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong> They may have used the word “Wicca” a few time, but this was more Dennis Wheatley<\/a> than Gerald Gardner. The “white whitches” are really “black witches,” they sacrifice people, and the solitary witch who lives in a tipi (!?) gives the detectives teas that (a) make them incredibly horny or (b) are psychotropic and mind-bending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

M. drew my attention today to the fact that Rocky Mountain PBS (Motto: “All Antiques Roadshow all the time.”) was offering another BBC-produced copy show, Wicca Work. Typical of RMPBS, they seem to be starting with the third season. CORRECTION: The series is New Tricks, the episode is “Wicca Work.” (Thanks, first commenter.) 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Clifton","date":"January 8, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I linked earlier to one of Eric Steinhart's series of discussions and critiques of Wicca from a non-theistic philosophical perspective. Here is the last, apparently, on Wicca without the \"woo\": It\u2019s probably not possible for Wicca to renounce the culture of woo.\u00a0 But an atheistic nature-religion in the United States\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"American religion\"","block_context":{"text":"American religion","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=american-religion"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":187,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=187","url_meta":{"origin":3847,"position":1},"title":"More Wiccan History","author":"Chas S. 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Clifton","date":"May 29, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"In her new book, Hidden Circles in the Web: Feminist Wicca, Occult Knowledge, and Process Thought, Denver priestess and theologian Constance Wise argues that process theology is uniquely appropriate for Paganism.When we speak of the \"Web of Being,\" she writes, \"the interconnectivity of events posited by process though is so\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"American religion\"","block_context":{"text":"American religion","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=american-religion"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1152,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1152","url_meta":{"origin":3847,"position":3},"title":"Gallimaufry with Confusion","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"May 7, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"\u2022 The latest weird search query to bring a visitor to this blog: \"Is New Mexico a polytheistic, monotheistic, or animistic religion?\" Hello? New Mexico is a state. No wonder that for years New Mexico Magazine has had a standing column on geographical confusion called \"One of Our 50 is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Gnosticism\"","block_context":{"text":"Gnosticism","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=gnosticism"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=chascli-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0934223955","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2163,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2163","url_meta":{"origin":3847,"position":4},"title":"More Mainstreaming of Wicca?","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"December 14, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Go here and read the third comment (Bella's).\u00a0 Either it has become a commonplace observation or we, truly, are everywhere. 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