{"id":867,"date":"2007-04-29T20:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-29T20:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=867"},"modified":"2007-04-29T20:01:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-29T20:01:00","slug":"teen-witches-and-sociologists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=867","title":{"rendered":"Teen Witches and Sociologists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rutgerspress.rutgers.edu\/acatalog\/__Teenage_Witches_2884.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rutgerspress.rutgers.edu\/acatalog\/Berger-Ezzy_L.gif?w=625\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Cover of Teenage Witches, by Helen Berger and Douglas Ezzy\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/rutgerspress.rutgers.edu\/acatalog\/__Teenage_Witches_2884.html\"><em>Teenage Witches: Magical Youth and the Search for Self<\/em><\/a>, a sociological study of young Pagan Witches, will be shipping in a few days from Rutgers University Press.<\/p>\n<p>I have heard co-authors <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcupa.edu\/_academics\/sch_cas.ant\/facpics\/berger.htm\">Helen Berger<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/fcms.its.utas.edu.au\/arts\/sociology\/pagedetails.asp?lpersonId=1881\">Doug Ezzy<\/a> give presentations from their research, which is excellent.<\/p>\n<p>From the Rutgers University Press catalog:<\/p>\n<p><em>As Helen A. Berger and Douglas Ezzy show in this in-depth look into the lives of teenage Witches, the reality of their practices, beliefs, values, and motivations is very different from the sensational depictions we see in popular culture. Drawing on extensive research across three countries-the United States, England, and Australia-and interviews with young people from diverse backgrounds, what they find are highly spiritual and self-reflective young men and women attempting to make sense of a postmodern world via a religion that celebrates the earth and emphasizes self-development.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Not to be confused with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chasclifton.com\/2004\/02\/teen-witches-some-people-are-saying.html\">Silver Ravenwolf&#8217;s <em>Teen Witch<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teenage Witches: Magical Youth and the Search for Self, a sociological study of young Pagan Witches, will be shipping in a few days from Rutgers University Press. I have heard co-authors Helen Berger and Doug Ezzy give presentations from their research, which is excellent. From the Rutgers University Press catalog: As Helen A. Berger and [&hellip;]<\/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":[5,28,6,29],"class_list":["post-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-paganism","tag-teens","tag-wicca","tag-witchcraft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-dZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12603,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12603","url_meta":{"origin":867,"position":0},"title":"Interview with Helen Berger, Leading Scholar of Paganism","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"November 19, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"At his blog, now called On New and Alternative Religions, Ethan Doyle While interviews Helen Berger, one of the leading American scholars of contemporary Paganism. Since completing her PhD research on the early modern witch trials in the 1980s, Berger has devoted her career to the sociological analysis of modern-day\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"academia\"","block_context":{"text":"academia","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=academia"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/helen-berger.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7724,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7724","url_meta":{"origin":867,"position":1},"title":"Core Books in Pagan Studies","author":"Chas S. 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Berger, author of A Community of Witches: Contemporary Neo-Paganism and Witchcraft in the United States, has a new book coming out in July, written together with Evan Leach and Leigh Shaffer. The title is Voices from the Pagan Census: A National Survey of Witches and Neo-Pagans in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Paganism\"","block_context":{"text":"Paganism","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=paganism"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1121,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1121","url_meta":{"origin":867,"position":5},"title":"Handbook of Contemporary Paganism in Print","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"February 14, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"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.) 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