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Title: A Community of Witches: Contemporary Neo-Paganism and Witchcraft in the United States (Studies in Comparative Religion) by Helen A. Berger ISBN: 1-57003-246-7 Publisher: University of South Carolina Press Pub. Date: November, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (8 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Occasionally infuriating but mostly disappointing
Comment: First of all, as a non-Wiccan Pagan, I am SO sick and tired of people automatically equating (Neo-)Pagan or Witch with Wicca that I could just scream.
Second, this reads like someone's graduate-school thesis, heavy on the academic citations and sociological jargon and light on readability. I minored in anthropology at university and still found it pretty chewy at points.
Third, extrapolating the _entire_ Pagan community from a very limited sample (virtually all Wiccan), in my opinion, utterly ridiculous. Certainly it isn't going to tell anyone much about actually _practicing_ the religion, so don't plan on reading it for that purpose. (It will, however, give an all-too-clear view of the backbiting, sniping, and passive-agressive behavior all too common in the Wiccan community. Sigh.)
Rating: 3
Summary: not hutton.
Comment: This book tries, and fails, to pick up where Hutton leaves off. Not a bad work, and certainly valuable and written in acessible langauge, but the scope of the investigation was too narrow to have much external validity.
Rating: 2
Summary: Tedious
Comment: I have wanted this book for a long time-- it looked like exactly what I wanted... a study on the pagan/wiccan religion in the US.
However, what I got was a dry, boring, tedious book that I couldn't even finish. It was like reading a textbook-- it had many citations from other works, and used language with which I was not familiar. (As a side note, I have completed college!) I wouldn't waste my money on this one, folks.
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Title: Never Again the Burning Times: Paganism Revived by Loretta Orion ISBN: 0881338354 Publisher: Waveland Press Pub. Date: January, 1995 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Voices from the Pagan Census: A National Survey of Witches and Neo-Pagans in the United States (Studies in Comparative Religion) by Helen A. Berger, Evan A. Leach, Leigh S. Shaffer ISBN: 1570034885 Publisher: University of South Carolina Press Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Contemporary Paganism: Listening People, Speaking Earth by Graham Harvey ISBN: 0814736203 Publisher: New York University Press Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft by Ronald Hutton ISBN: 0192854496 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Pagan Theology: Paganism As a World Religion by Michael York ISBN: 0814797024 Publisher: New York University Press Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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