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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797274503321

Titolo

Contemporary pagan and native faith movements in Europe : colonialist and nationalist impulses / / edited by Kathryn Rountree ; contributors, Matthew H. Amster [and twelve others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78238-647-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (325 p.)

Collana

EASA Series

Disciplina

299.94094

Soggetti

Neopaganism - Europe

Europe Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

10 On the Sticks and Stones of the Greencraft Temple in Flanders11 Iberian Paganism; 12 Bellisama and Aradia; 13 Authenticity and Invention in the Quest for a Modern Maltese Paganism; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Pagan and Native Faith movements have sprung up across Europe in recent decades, yet little has been published about them compared with their British and American counterparts. Though all such movements valorize human relationships with nature and embrace polytheistic cosmologies, practitioners' beliefs, practices, goals, and agendas are diverse. Often side by side are groups trying to reconstruct ancient religions motivated by ethnonationalism-especially in post-Soviet societies-and others attracted by imported traditions, such as Wicca, Druidry, Goddess Spirituality, and Core Shamanism. Dra