Witching Culture Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America【電子書籍】[ Sabina Magliocco ]

＜p＞Taking 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.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Magliocco analyzes magical practices and rituals of Neo-Paganism as art forms that reanimate the cos．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る