Contemporary Pagan and Native Faith Movements in Europe: Colonialist and Nationalist Impulses

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'...

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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York ; Oxford Berghahn Books [2015]
Schriftenreihe:EASA Series 26
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Zusammenfassung: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
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Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (326 Seiten)
ISBN:9781782386476
DOI:10.1515/9781782386476

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