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Recent decades have seen a revival of paganism, and every summer people gather across the United States to celebrate this increasingly popular religion. Sarah Pike's engrossing ethnography is the outcome of five years attending neo-pagan festivals, interviewing participants, and sometimes takin...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pike, Sarah M., 1959-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2001.
Subjects:
Since 1945
Neopaganism > United States.
Neopaganism > Rituals.
Festivals > United States.
Néopaganisme > États-Unis.
Néopaganisme > Rituel.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Spirituality > Paganism & Neo-Paganism.
Festivals.
Neopaganism.
Religion.
Religiöses Fest
Identitätsfindung
Neuheidentum
Ritual
Heidendom.
United States > Religion > 1945-
États-Unis > Religion > 1945-
United States.
USA.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Driving into fairie: place myths and neopagan festivals
  • Shrines of flame and silence: mapping the festival site
  • The great evil that is in your backyard: festival neighbors and satanism rumors
  • Blood that matters: neopagan borrowing
  • Children of the devil or gifted in magic? The world of memory in neopagan narrative
  • Serious playing with the self: gender and eroticism and the festival fire.

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