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Contemporary pagan and native faith movements in Europe : colonialist and nationalist impulses / edited by Kathryn Rountree.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextLanguage: English Series: Publisher: New York : Berghahn, [2018]Copyright date: ℗♭2018Edition: First paperback editionDescription: viii, 315 pages illustrations 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781785338236
  • 1785338234
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 299.94094 23/swe
Contents:
Sami neo-shamanism in Norway : colonial grounds, ethnic revival and Pagan pathways / Siv Ellen Kraft -- It's not easy being apolitical : reconstruction and eclectism in Danish Asatro / Matthew H. Amster -- Modern heathenism in Sweden : a case study in the creation of a traditional religion / Fredrik Gregorius -- The Brotherhood of Wolves in the Czech Republic : from ©satr©ð to Primitivism / Kamila Velkoborsk©Ł -- Soviet-era discourse and Siberian shamanic revivalism : how area spirits speak through academia / Eleanor Peers -- In search of genuine religion : the contemporary Estonian Maausulised Movement and nationalist discourse / Ergo-Hart V©Þstrik -- Emerging identity markets of contemporary Pagan ideologies in Hungary / Tam©Łs Szil©Łgyi -- Hot, strange, V©œlkisch, cosmopolitan : native faith and neopagan witchcraft in Berlin's changing urban context / Victoria Hegner -- Paganism in Ireland : syncretic processes, identity and a sense of place / Jenny Butler -- On the sticks and stones of the Greencraft Temple in Flanders : balancing global and local heritage in Wicca / L©♭on A. van Gulik -- Iberian paganism : goddess spirituality in Spain and Portugal and the quest for authenticity / Anna Fedele -- Bellisama and Aradia : paganism re-emerges in Italy / Francesca Ciancimino Howell -- Authenticity and invention in the quest for a modern Maltese paganism / Kathryn Rountree.
Summary: "Pagan and Native Faith movements have sprung up across Europe in recent decades, yet little has been published about them compared with their British and American counterparts. Though all such movements valorize human relationships with nature and embrace polytheistic cosmologies, practitioners' beliefs, practices, goals, and agendas are diverse. Often side by side are groups trying to reconstruct ancient religions motivated by ethnonationalism-especially in post-Soviet societies-and others attracted by imported traditions, such as Wicca, Druidry, Goddess Spirituality, and Core Shamanism. Drawing on ethnographic cases, contributors explore the interplay of neo-nationalistic and neo-colonialist impulses in contemporary Paganism, showing how these impulses play out, intersect, collide, and transform."--Provided by publisher.
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"Published in association with the European Association of Social Anthropologist (EASA)"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sami neo-shamanism in Norway : colonial grounds, ethnic revival and Pagan pathways / Siv Ellen Kraft -- It's not easy being apolitical : reconstruction and eclectism in Danish Asatro / Matthew H. Amster -- Modern heathenism in Sweden : a case study in the creation of a traditional religion / Fredrik Gregorius -- The Brotherhood of Wolves in the Czech Republic : from ©satr©ð to Primitivism / Kamila Velkoborsk©Ł -- Soviet-era discourse and Siberian shamanic revivalism : how area spirits speak through academia / Eleanor Peers -- In search of genuine religion : the contemporary Estonian Maausulised Movement and nationalist discourse / Ergo-Hart V©Þstrik -- Emerging identity markets of contemporary Pagan ideologies in Hungary / Tam©Łs Szil©Łgyi -- Hot, strange, V©œlkisch, cosmopolitan : native faith and neopagan witchcraft in Berlin's changing urban context / Victoria Hegner -- Paganism in Ireland : syncretic processes, identity and a sense of place / Jenny Butler -- On the sticks and stones of the Greencraft Temple in Flanders : balancing global and local heritage in Wicca / L©♭on A. van Gulik -- Iberian paganism : goddess spirituality in Spain and Portugal and the quest for authenticity / Anna Fedele -- Bellisama and Aradia : paganism re-emerges in Italy / Francesca Ciancimino Howell -- Authenticity and invention in the quest for a modern Maltese paganism / Kathryn Rountree.

"Pagan and Native Faith movements have sprung up across Europe in recent decades, yet little has been published about them compared with their British and American counterparts. Though all such movements valorize human relationships with nature and embrace polytheistic cosmologies, practitioners' beliefs, practices, goals, and agendas are diverse. Often side by side are groups trying to reconstruct ancient religions motivated by ethnonationalism-especially in post-Soviet societies-and others attracted by imported traditions, such as Wicca, Druidry, Goddess Spirituality, and Core Shamanism. Drawing on ethnographic cases, contributors explore the interplay of neo-nationalistic and neo-colonialist impulses in contemporary Paganism, showing how these impulses play out, intersect, collide, and transform."--Provided by publisher.