Embracing the witch and the goddess : feminist ritual-makers in New Zealand / Kathryn Rountree.
Material type: TextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004Description: xii, 223 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0415303583
- 9780415303583
- 0415303605
- 9780415303606
- 133.430993 21
- BF1584.N45 R68 2003
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New Zealand author.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-217) and index.
1. Introduction -- 2. Approaches to witchcraft -- 3. Feminists and witches -- 4. Feminists and the Goddess -- 5. Researching witches: becoming enchanted -- 6. Feminist witchcraft in New Zealand: origins and developments -- 7. The attraction of witchcraft -- 8. The attraction of the Goddess: witches' worldviews -- 9. What witches do -- 10. Ritual as artefact -- 11. How magic works -- 12. Re-membering the witch and the Goddess.
"Embracing the Witch and the Goddess is a detailed survey of present-day feminist witches in New Zealand. It examines the attraction of witchcraft for its practitioners, and explores witches' rituals, views and beliefs about how magic works. The book provides a detailed portrait of this undocumented section of the growing neo-Pagan movement and compares the special character of New Zealand witchcraft with its counterparts in the United States, Great Britain and Australia. Kathryn Rountree traces the emergence and history of feminist witchcraft, and links witchcraft with the contemporary Goddess movement. She reviews scholarly approaches to the study of witchcraft and deals with the key debates which have engaged the movement's adherents and their critics, and ultimately presents what Mary Daly declared was missing from most historical and anthropological research on witchcraft: a 'Hag-identified vision'." "Based on fieldwork among witch practitioners, Embracing the Witch and the Goddess is an important contribution to the emerging profile of present-day witchcraft and Paganism."--BOOK JACKET.
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