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Description for Wicca
Hardcover. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HRQX5; VXWT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 568.
The past century has born witness to a growing interest in the belief systems of ancient Europe, with an array of contemporary Pagan groups claiming to revive these old ways for the needs of the modern world. By far the largest and best known of these Paganisms has been Wicca, a new religious movement that can now count hundreds of thousands of adherents worldwide. Emerging from the occult milieu of mid twentieth-century Britain, Wicca was first presented as the survival of an ancient pre-Christian Witch-Cult, whose participants assembled in covens to venerate their Horned God and Mother Goddess, to celebrate ... Read more
The past century has born witness to a growing interest in the belief systems of ancient Europe, with an array of contemporary Pagan groups claiming to revive these old ways for the needs of the modern world. By far the largest and best known of these Paganisms has been Wicca, a new religious movement that can now count hundreds of thousands of adherents worldwide. Emerging from the occult milieu of mid twentieth-century Britain, Wicca was first presented as the survival of an ancient pre-Christian Witch-Cult, whose participants assembled in covens to venerate their Horned God and Mother Goddess, to celebrate ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845197544
SKU
V9781845197544
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About Ethan Doyle White
Ethan Doyle White is an established Pagan studies scholar and trained archaeologist currently engaged in an interdisciplinary MPhil/PhD project in Early Medieval Studies at University College London (UCL).
Reviews for Wicca
"Ethan Doyle White's book combines a sweeping trans-Atlantic survey of contemporary Pagan Witchcraft's origins and spread. With ample attention to both theology and praxis, he has produced an important resource for future scholars of the first world religion that began in England." - Chas S. Clifton, editor, The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies Ethan D. White was interviewed ... Read more