Magic and Witchery in the Modern West Celebrating the Twentieth Anniversary of 'The Triumph of the Moon' /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Feraro, Shai (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Doyle White, Ethan (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
• Subjects: Civilization-History.; Social history.; Europe-History.; History, Modern.; Cultural History.; Social History.; European History.; Modern History.

This book marks twenty years since the publication of Professor Ronald Hutton's The Triumph of the Moon, a major contribution to the historical study of Wicca. Building on and celebrating Hutton's pioneering work, the chapters in this volume explore a range of modern magical, occult, and P...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Twenty Years On: An Introduction; Ethan Doyle White and Shai Feraro
• 2. The Goddess and the Great Rite: Hindu Tantra and the Complex Origins of Modern Wicca; Hugh B. Urban
• 3. Playing the Pipes of PAN: Pagans Against Nukes and the Linking of Wiccan-Derived Paganism with Ecofeminism in Britain, 1980-1990; Shai Feraro
• 4. Other Sides of the Moon: Assembling Histories of Witchcraft; Helen Cornish
• 5. The Nearest Kin of the Moon: Irish Pagan Witchcraft, Magic(k), and the Celtic Twilight; Jenny Butler
• 6. The Taming of the Fae: Literary and Folkloric Fairies in Modern Paganisms; Sabina Magliocco
• 7. "Wild Nature" and the Lure of the Past: The Legacy of Romanticism among Young Pagan Environmentalists; Sarah M. Pike
• 8. The Blind Moondial Makers: Creativity and Renewal in Wicca; Léon A. van Gulik
• 9. "The Eyes of Goats and of Women:" Femininity and the Post-Thelemic Witchcraft of Jack Parsons and Kenneth Grant; Manon Hedenborg White
• 10. Navigating the Crooked Path: Andrew D. Chumbley and the Sabbatic Craft; Ethan Doyle White
• 11. Witches Still Fly - Or Do They? Traditional Witches, Wiccans, and Flying Ointment; Chas S. Clifton
• 12. Afterword; Ronald Hutton.