Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Contributors vii
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part One. A Chthonic Imperative? Religion and Nature in the Modem World
7. 1 Globalisation and the Religion of Nature 11
8. 2 Reflections on New Age and the Secularisation of Nature 22
9. 3 Between Apocalypse and Self-realisation: ‘Nature* as an Index of New Age Religiosity 33
10. 4 Assumed Affinities: Wicca and the New Age 45
11. 5 The Chthonic Imperative: Gender, Religion and the Battle for the Earth 57
12. Part Two. The Pagan Alternative: the Goddess and Nature 75
13. 6 The European Native Tradition 77
14. 7 The Discovery of the Modern Goddess 89
15. 8 The Nature of the Goddess: Sexual Identities and Power in Contemporary Witchcraft 101
16. 9 Goddesses and Gopis: In Search of New Models of Female Sexuality 111
17. 10 Paganism and Tibetan Buddhism: Contemporary Western Religions and the Question of Nature 123
18. Part Three. Nature Religion in Practice
19. 11 Feminist Witchcraft and Holy Hermeneutics 143
20. 12 A Priest of the Goddess 157
21. 13 Wicca as Nature Religion 170
22. 14 The Gal-Gael Peoples of Scotland: on Tradition Re-bearing, Recovery of Place and Making Identity Anew 180
23. Bibliography 203
24. Index 219