Nikki Bado

Coming to the Edge of the Circle

A Wiccan Initiation Ritual

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Produktbeschreibung

Coming to the Edge of the Circle offers an ethnographic study of the initiation ritual practiced by one coven of Witches located in Ohio. As a High Priestess within the coven as well as a scholar of religion, Nikki Bado is in a unique position to contribute to our understanding of this ceremony and the tradition to which it belongs.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 281g
• ISBN-13: 9780199812257
• ISBN-10: 019981225X
• Artikelnr.: 52153205

Autorenporträt

As a scholar, Nikki Bado is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Iowa State University and past Director of their Religious Studies Program. She is currently on steering committees for both the Contemporary Pagan Sudies and Body and Religion Groups of the AAR. As a practitioner, she continues her work as the founding High Priestess in the Coven of Prairie Hawks in Iowa.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Dancing between Binary Poles: Life as a Scholar-Practitioner
2. Stumbling toward Wisdom
3. The Merry Circle
4. The Path toward the Circle
5. The Rite of Dedication: Getting behind the Wheel
6. Coming to the Edge of the Circle
7. Concluding Remarks
Epilogue: She Changes Everything She Touches
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index