#48: Witchcraft & Paganism
-- Richard Smoley, from the introduction
Contents
Editorial
by Jay Kinney
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Up Front
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Forum
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News & Notes
The Nicholas Roerich Museum; Islam and secularism face off in Turkey; 5th Annual Sufism Symposium.
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Introduction: The Old Religion
by Richard Smoley
Is Neopaganism the newest or the oldest of religions? Either way it needs to face its history.
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Nature Religion for Real
by Chas S. Clifton
The essence of Paganism is connecting with the spirits of land and place. How do we do that today?
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Explaining Wicca
by Judy Harrow
An introduction to the beliefs and practices of today's predominant form of Neopaganism.
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Life, Death, and the Goddess: The GNOSIS Interview with Starhawk and Carol Christ
by Richard Smoley
Two celebrated authors discuss the current state of Neopaganism and how it relates to contemporary scholarship.
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A Witch Among the Navajos
by Malcolm Brenner
When a Neopagan takes up residence "on the rez," a curious kind of magic can happen.
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The Goddess Movement, Past and Present
by Carol LeMasters
The Goddess movement started out as a liberating force. Has it since grown too dogmatic?
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The Red God: Woodcraft and the Origins of Wicca
by John Michael Greer and Gordon Cooper
Where are Wicca's origins? The Neolithic forests? The heaths of old Britain? How about suburban Connecticut?
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When Is a Celt Not a Celt?
by Joanna Hautin-Mayer
An irreverent glimpse into the literature of ancient Irish potato cults, Druid snake handlers, and "Cardiac Celts."
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Book Reviews
- The Kebra Nagast: The Lost Bible of Rastafarian Wisdom and Faith from
Ethiopia and Jamaica edited by Gerald Hausman
- The Mother of God by Luna Tarlo
- The Book of Enlightened Masters: Western Teachers in Eastern
Traditions by Andrew Rawlinson
- Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement With Everyday Life by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Undiscovered Country: The Search for Gurdjieff by Kathryn C. Hulme
- The Cross and the Grail: Esoteric Christianity for the 21st Century by Robert Ellwood
- Angels, Demons, and Gods of the New Millennium by Lon Milo DuQuette
- The Soul of Cyberspace: How New Technology is Changing Our Spiritual
Lives by Jeff Zaleski
About our covers:
Front: "Red Buddha" by Katherine Ace. (Katace@europa.com)
Back: "Walking with the Invisible" by Susan Hill.
