Earthly bodies, magical selves : contemporary pagans and the search for community / Sarah M. Pike.

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Pike, Sarah M, 1959-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2001.Description: 1 online resource (xxvi, 288 p.)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780520923805
0520923804
058539461X
9780585394619
9786612758799
6612758791
1282758799
9781282758797
1597345865
9781597345866

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Earthly bodies, magical selvesDDC classification:

299 21

LOC classification:

BL2525

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11.09
BE 9000

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Contents:

Driving into fairie: place myths and neopagan festivals -- Shrines of flame and silence: mapping the festival site -- The great evil that is in your backyard: festival neighbors and satanism rumors -- Blood that matters: neopagan borrowing -- Children of the devil or gifted in magic? The world of memory in neopagan narrative -- Serious playing with the self: gender and eroticism and the festival fire.

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Summary: Recent decades have seen a revival of paganism, and every summer people gather across the United States to celebrate this increasingly popular religion. Sarah Pike's engrossing ethnography is the outcome of five years attending neo-pagan festivals, interviewing participants, and sometimes taking part in their ceremonies.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-271) and index.

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Recent decades have seen a revival of paganism, and every summer people gather across the United States to celebrate this increasingly popular religion. Sarah Pike's engrossing ethnography is the outcome of five years attending neo-pagan festivals, interviewing participants, and sometimes taking part in their ceremonies.

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