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Enchanted Feminism: Ritual, Gender and Divinity Among the Reclaiming Witches of San Francisco eBook
by Jone Salomonsen
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Enchanted Feminism: Ritual, Gender and Divinity Among the Reclaiming Witches of San Francisco Summary
| Many today feel the need to restore a magical, spiritual ground to human existence. One of the most visible responses to this need has been the rise of contemporary pagan witchcraft, and one of its most interesting voices, Reclaiming. Over twenty years ago two Jewish women, Starhawk and Diane Baker, formed this community of feminist witches to teach others about their newly found goddess and her emancipatory rituals, and so to ''reclaim'' a spirtuality from ancient paganism and goddess worship in order to heal the spiritual and social diseases of contemporary western culture. It has since succeeded in developing an independent spiritual tradition, fostered partly by the success of Starhawk's ^The Spiral Dance and other books, and now has sister communities throughout North America and Europe. Enchanted Feminism presents the first in-depth study of this important movement, indeed any contemporary pagan movement, from a consistent gender perspective. In a unique interdisciplinary approach, Dr Salomonsen adopts the perspectives of both social anthropology and theology to analyse the beliefs and practices of Reclaiming witches. Among many issues, she considers their spiritual search for the ''Real'', their renunciation of patriarchal religions and their attempts to build a new religious identity, their use of ritual and feminine symbols for the divine and for the ordinary, and their involvement with feminist-anarchist politics. The results of her research provide challenging and insightful reading. |
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