Wicca and the Christian Heritage

Wicca and the Christian Heritage
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 373
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ISBN-10 : 9781134524266
ISBN-13 : 1134524269
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Download or read book Wicca and the Christian Heritage written by Joanne Pearson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-05-03 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Wicca? Is it witchcraft, Paganism, occultism, esotericism, magic, spirituality, mysticism, nature religion, secrecy, gnosis, the exotic or 'other'? Wicca has been defined by and explored within all these contexts over the past thirty years by anthropologists, sociologists and historians, but there has been a tendency to sublimate and negate the role of Christianity in Wicca's historical and contemporary contexts. Joanne Pearson 'prowls the borderlands of Christianity' to uncover the untold history of Wicca. Exploring the problematic nature of the Wiccan claim of marginality, it contains a groundbreaking analysis of themes in Christian traditions that are inherent in the development of contemporary Wicca. These focus on the accusations which have been levelled against Catholisicm, heterodoxy and witchcraft throughout history: ritual, deviant sexuality and magic.


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