| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
England's 'old religions' -- Episcopi vagantes and heterodox Christianity -- Churches gnostic and agnostic -- Rediscovering ritual -- Sex and the sacred -- The magic of the margins -- Afterword : the Christian heritage? |
| Summary |
What is Wicca? Is it witchcraft, Paganism, occultism, esotericism, magic, spirituality, mysticism, nature religion, secrecy, gnosis, the exotic or 'other'? Wicca has been defined by and explored within all these contexts over the past thirty years by anthropologists, sociologists and historians, but there has been a tendency to sublimate and negate the role of Christianity in Wicca's historical and contemporary contexts.Joanne Pearson 'prowls the borderlands of Christianity' to uncover the untold history of Wicca. Exploring the problematic nature of the Wiccan claim of marginality, |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Witchcraft -- History
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Neopaganism -- Relations -- Christianity.
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Christianity and other religions -- Neopaganism.
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Witchcraft & Wicca.
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Christianity
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Interfaith relations
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Neopaganism
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Witchcraft
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Hekserij.
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Christendom.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203961988 |
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0203961986 |
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0415254132 |
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9780415254137 |
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0415254140 |
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9780415254144 |
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