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Nature Religion Today : Paganism in the Modern World / Joanne Overend.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©1998Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780748610570
  • 9781474471503
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  • 292 21
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part One. A Chthonic Imperative? Religion and Nature in the Modem World -- 1 Globalisation and the Religion of Nature -- 2 Reflections on New Age and the Secularisation of Nature -- 3 Between Apocalypse and Self-realisation: ‘Nature* as an Index of New Age Religiosity -- 4 Assumed Affinities: Wicca and the New Age -- 5 The Chthonic Imperative: Gender, Religion and the Battle for the Earth -- Part Two. The Pagan Alternative: the Goddess and Nature -- 6 The European Native Tradition -- 7 The Discovery of the Modern Goddess -- 8 The Nature of the Goddess: Sexual Identities and Power in Contemporary Witchcraft -- 9 Goddesses and Gopis: In Search of New Models of Female Sexuality -- 10 Paganism and Tibetan Buddhism: Contemporary Western Religions and the Question of Nature -- Part Three. Nature Religion in Practice -- 11 Feminist Witchcraft and Holy Hermeneutics -- 12 A Priest of the Goddess -- 13 Wicca as Nature Religion -- 14 The Gal-Gael Peoples of Scotland: on Tradition Re-bearing, Recovery of Place and Making Identity Anew -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: While traditional religions are in decline, Paganism is an area of unprecedented growth. This book offers an informed, state of the art insight into this fascinating area of cultural change. Drawing on accounts from practitioners and academics, it shows nature religion evolving from a blend of environmental activism, feminism, critiques of capitalism and innovative forms of spirituality, such as dedication to the Goddess. This is a cutting-edge study which raises important questions about the recovery of tradition in late modernity, as well as nature religion's relationship with the global but fragmented religious resurgence known as the New Age.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part One. A Chthonic Imperative? Religion and Nature in the Modem World -- 1 Globalisation and the Religion of Nature -- 2 Reflections on New Age and the Secularisation of Nature -- 3 Between Apocalypse and Self-realisation: ‘Nature* as an Index of New Age Religiosity -- 4 Assumed Affinities: Wicca and the New Age -- 5 The Chthonic Imperative: Gender, Religion and the Battle for the Earth -- Part Two. The Pagan Alternative: the Goddess and Nature -- 6 The European Native Tradition -- 7 The Discovery of the Modern Goddess -- 8 The Nature of the Goddess: Sexual Identities and Power in Contemporary Witchcraft -- 9 Goddesses and Gopis: In Search of New Models of Female Sexuality -- 10 Paganism and Tibetan Buddhism: Contemporary Western Religions and the Question of Nature -- Part Three. Nature Religion in Practice -- 11 Feminist Witchcraft and Holy Hermeneutics -- 12 A Priest of the Goddess -- 13 Wicca as Nature Religion -- 14 The Gal-Gael Peoples of Scotland: on Tradition Re-bearing, Recovery of Place and Making Identity Anew -- Bibliography -- Index

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While traditional religions are in decline, Paganism is an area of unprecedented growth. This book offers an informed, state of the art insight into this fascinating area of cultural change. Drawing on accounts from practitioners and academics, it shows nature religion evolving from a blend of environmental activism, feminism, critiques of capitalism and innovative forms of spirituality, such as dedication to the Goddess. This is a cutting-edge study which raises important questions about the recovery of tradition in late modernity, as well as nature religion's relationship with the global but fragmented religious resurgence known as the New Age.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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