LEADER 03778nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910463692403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-89926-4 010 $a0-8122-0270-8 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812202700 035 $a(CKB)3240000000068509 035 $a(OCoLC)794702202 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10641560 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000686579 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11453547 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000686579 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10734357 035 $a(PQKB)10307918 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441725 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse3111 035 $a(DE-B1597)449126 035 $a(OCoLC)979622666 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812202700 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441725 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10641560 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL421176 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000068509 100 $a20040107d2004 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWitching culture$b[electronic resource] $efolklore and neo-paganism in America /$fSabina Magliocco 210 $aPhiladelphia, Pa. $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (277 p.) 225 0 $aContemporary Ethnography 225 0$aContemporary ethnography 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-1879-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [247]-255) and index. 327 $apt. I. Roots and branches -- pt. II. Religions of experience -- pt. III. Beyond experience : religion and identity. 330 $aTaking the reader into the heart of one of the fastest-growing religious movements in North America, Sabina Magliocco reveals how the disciplines of anthropology and folklore were fundamental to the early development of Neo-Paganism and the revival of witchcraft. Magliocco examines the roots that this religious movement has in a Western spiritual tradition of mysticism disavowed by the Enlightenment. She explores, too, how modern Pagans and Witches are imaginatively reclaiming discarded practices and beliefs to create religions more in keeping with their personal experience of the world as sacred and filled with meaning. Neo-Pagan religions focus on experience, rather than belief, and many contemporary practitioners have had mystical experiences. They seek a context that normalizes them and creates in them new spiritual dimensions that involve change in ordinary consciousness.Magliocco analyzes magical practices and rituals of Neo-Paganism as art forms that reanimate the cosmos and stimulate the imagination of its practitioners. She discusses rituals that are put together using materials from a variety of cultural and historical sources, and examines the cultural politics surrounding the movement-how the Neo-Pagan movement creates identity by contrasting itself against the dominant culture and how it can be understood in the context of early twenty-first-century identity politics.Witching Culture is the first ethnography of this religious movement to focus specifically on the role of anthropology and folklore in its formation, on experiences that are central to its practice, and on what it reveals about identity and belief in twenty-first-century North America. 606 $aNeopaganism$zUnited States 606 $aFolklore$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aNeopaganism 615 0$aFolklore 676 $a299/.94/0973 700 $aMagliocco$b Sabina$f1959-$01038164 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463692403321 996 $aWitching culture$92459580 997 $aUNINA 999 $p$14.44$u06/22/2018$5Relig