Magic and Witchery in the Modern West - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Magic and Witchery in the Modern West write by Shai Feraro. This book was released on 2019-06-26. Magic and Witchery in the Modern West available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 Pagan groups active in Western nations. Each contributor is a specialist in the study of modern Paganism and occultism, although differ in their embrace of historical, anthropological, and psychological perspectives. Chapters examine not only the history of Wicca, the largest and best-known form of modern Paganism, but also modern Pagan environmentalist and anti-nuclear activism, the Pagan interpretation of fairy folklore, and the contemporary ‘Traditional Witchcraft’ phenomenon.
Contemporary Magic and Witchcraft
Contemporary Magic and Witchcraft - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contemporary Magic and Witchcraft write by Susan Greenwood. This book was released on 2003. Contemporary Magic and Witchcraft available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a detailed and fascinating overview of the magical traditions and practices of the modern western world.
Stealing Fire from Heaven
Stealing Fire from Heaven - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stealing Fire from Heaven write by Nevill Drury. This book was released on 2011-03-02. Stealing Fire from Heaven available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Western magical traditions are currently undergoing an international resurgence. In Stealing Fire from Heaven, Nevill Drury offers an overview of the modern occult revival and seeks to explain this growing interest in ancient magical belief systems. Gnosticism and the Hermetica, the medieval Kabbalah, Tarot and Alchemy, and more recently, Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry, collectively laid the basis for the modern magical revival, which first began to gather momentum in Europe at the end of the nineteenth century. Western magic has since become increasingly eclectic, drawing on such diverse sources as classical Greco-Roman mythology, Celtic cosmology, Kundalini yoga and Tantra, shamanism, chaos theory, and the various spiritual traditions associated in many different cultures with the Universal Goddess. Drury traces the rise of various forms of magical belief and practice, from the influential Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn to the emergence of Wicca and Goddess worship as expressions of contemporary feminine spirituality. He also explores Chaos Magick and the occult practices of the so-called Left-Hand Path, as well as twenty-first-century magical forays into cyberspace. He believes that the rise of modern Western magic stems essentially from the quest for personal spiritual transformation and direct experience of the sacred--a quest which the trance occultist and visionary artist Austin Osman Spare once referred to as "stealing fire from heaven." Considered in this light, Drury argues, modern Western magic can be regarded as a form of alternative spirituality in which the practitioners seek direct engagement with the mythic realm.
Representing Magic in Modern Ireland
Representing Magic in Modern Ireland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Representing Magic in Modern Ireland write by Andrew Sneddon. This book was released on 2022-05-19. Representing Magic in Modern Ireland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This Element argues that Ireland did not experience a disenchanted modernity, nor a decline in magic. It suggests that beliefs, practices and traditions concerning witchcraft and magic developed and adapted to modernity to retain cultural currency until the end of the twentieth century. This analysis provides the backdrop for the first systematic exploration of how historic Irish trials of witches and cunning-folk were represented by historians, antiquarians, journalists, dramatists, poets, and novelists in Ireland between the late eighteenth and late twentieth century. It is demonstrated that this work created an accepted narrative of Irish witchcraft and magic which glossed over, ignored, or obscured the depth of belief in witchcraft, both in the past and in contemporary society. Collectively, their work gendered Irish witchcraft, created a myth of a disenchanted, modern Ireland, and reinforced competing views of Irishness and Irish identity. These long-held stereotypes were only challenged in the late twentieth-century.
Essays on Women in Western Esotericism
Essays on Women in Western Esotericism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Essays on Women in Western Esotericism write by Amy Hale. This book was released on 2022-01-21. Essays on Women in Western Esotericism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is the first collection to feature histories of women in Western Esotericism while also highlighting women’s scholarship. In addition to providing a critical examination of important and under researched figures in the history of Western Esotericism, these fifteen essays also contribute to current debates in the study of esotericism about the very nature of the field itself. The chapters are divided into four thematic sections that address current topics in the study of esotericism: race and othering, femininity, power and leadership and embodiment. This collection not only adds important voices to the story of Western Esotericism, it hopes to change the way the story is told.
