Enchanted Feminism: The Reclaiming Witches of San Francisco

ISBN-13: 9780415223935 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 336 str.

Jone Salomonsen

Opis

The Reclaiming community of witches was founded in 1979 in San Francisco by the Jewish author Starhawk. Their name refers to the spirituality re-claimed from ancient Paganism and goddess worship in order to heal estrangement from Biblical religion. Believing that Western culture suffers from severe social and spiritual disease because its founding religions deny such major aspects of the nature of reality as divine immanence and ecological/magical interdependence. From this stance, feminist witches have created the compassionate alternative known as Wicca.

Spis treści

Introduction PART I Guardians of the world 1 The Reclaiming community: a feminist, social construction 2 Wicca revival: Starhawk and the myth of ancient origin 3 Utopian and generic Witches: revitalizing western spiritualities 4 Holy hermeneutics: how to find truth PART II Priestesses of the craft 5 Elements of magic: learning to ritualize 6 The Spiral Dance ritual: a celebration of death and rebirth 7 Women’s mysteries: creating a female symbolic order 8 Initiation: transforming self Conclusion: Reclaiming Witchcraft and theology

O autorze

Jone Salomonsen is Senior Research Fellow in Theology and Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo.