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Title: Wicca 333: Advanced Topics in Wiccan Belief by Kaatryn MacMorgan ISBN: 0-595-27170-7 Publisher: Writers Club Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Source For Wiccan Philosophy
Comment: Thoughtful, pointed and provocative. This is an *excellent* source and starting point for discussion in Wiccan and Pagan philosophy and world view. This work is a great start to filling a gaping hole in Wiccan teaching. Kaatryn MacMorgan is opinionated, but well researched and well grounded in her views, and her purpose is to spark thought, research and more discussion. Her statements are sometimes bold, and tend to stir up the thought processes.
Each chapter contains references to source material that can be used as a start for further discussion and more advanced topics. The book is suitable for solitary study, group discussions, or classroom situations.
Others have pointed out that there are typos in the text, and there are several. However, substance is far more important, and this is an important work.
I consider this a "must read" for any serious solitary or group studying Wicca seriously.
Rating: 5
Summary: Advanced Topics in BELIEF.
Comment: This book is a collection of vignettes-twelve relatively short sections that each describe an aspect of *belief*, either Wiccan belief or beliefs often associated with Wicca, in extreme detail.
The information is critical. The author cites sources, gives contrasting views at time (for example, in the section on the Wiccan Rede, she talks about the reasons why it is generally interpretted as she describes, (her interpretation is Gardnerian to the core, which is weird from a self-described eclectic) then suggests that those with contrasting views should do the research, presumably to challenge her reseach or reach their own conclusions.)
Perhaps most refreshingly, right in the introduction she states that she is not a guru, and that she should not be accepted because her word is in print. It's almost a complete turn around from other books I've read in which the author lords it over the readers. She repeats the message of "do your own research" again and again, and always states when, where and how she came up with what she says.
There are even a few times where she states two contrasting opinions in the community and says she has no opinion on which is right and several times where she states an extreme belief, expressed by friends and covenmates and says "but I'm not sure I can believe that, and here's why."
This book will alienate people looking for things about how to be Wiccan or an easy form of Wicca... it's a challenging read, giving equal creedence at times to points of view that are obscure.
I imagined, at times, the author was vetting things through a ravening hoarde of reconstructionists, whose side she's clearly on in the whole unethical eclecticism vs communal and cultural gnossis debate.
It is no more, and no less than what it says it is, advanced topic in Wiccan Belief, and perhaps provided a read that stuck with me more than any other book I've reviewed.
Rating: 4
Summary: Philosophy and theology, not training
Comment: This is one of those books that may be misunderstood by some who buy it. Wicca 333 is a discussion of current philosophy, beliefs, and theology from a Wiccan perspective. MacMorgan addresses several current topics such as feminism and Wicca, science and Wicca, proselytizing, real history, and others. If you are a "trad" Wiccan who already knows "the one true way," then forget it. If you're looking for a more advanced "how to" book of super duper magick, it's the wrong book. But if you're a thoughtful Wiccan theologian or philosopher who enjoys keeping up with what others are saying and thinking about Wiccan religion, ethics, history and philosophy then this is a must for your reference library.
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