Her Hidden Children: The Rise of Wicca and Paganism in America<\/em><\/a> around the seminar table.<\/p>\nBecause I teach English rather than history of religion, not too many people had known about it. I did thank him in the preface for his support of my unconventional scholarship, however. But I had to chuckle too, because some of these students are my students this semester too.<\/p>\n
I don’t exactly wear my pentagram on my sleeve at the university. I am what I am (and they ought to give the department some kind of diversity points benefit for having me), but I don’t advertise.<\/p>\n
Consider, for instance, my student C____, with whom I worked closely on an important project over the summer, one that might further her career. She’s bright and willing to do far more than the minimum work required. She is also more or less of a fundamentalist Christian. It would not surprise me if she thinks that the universe was created in six 24-hour days. But I liked having her in class all the same.<\/p>\n
If she knew I was in the Craft, would it spoil the professor-student relationship? All she would have to do is Google me, but students are generally incurious about their professors’ lives, I think.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, another student who was working on an interview-based article in a magazine-writing class told me that if her first interviewee did not work out, she could interview “a friend who was Pagan.”<\/p>\n
“Let’s stick with Plan A,” I said. <\/p>\n
And, meanwhile, a department colleague asked me if Her Hidden Children<\/em> was for sale in the university bookstore.<\/p>\nDuh! I had completely forgotten about the display shelves of books by faculty members.<\/p>\n
So I printed out the page from AltaMira Press’s online catalog and took it to the bookstore manager.<\/p>\n
Today she emailed me: It’s back-ordered until December.<\/p>\n
I should be glad, since that seems to indicate that it is selling. Hope so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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