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