In our contemporary post-modern world, popular forms of spirituality are increasingly engaging with notions of re-enchantment - of self and community. Drawing on case studies of particular groups, including pagans, witches, radical faeries, post-modern tourists, and queer and goddess groups, contributors from Australia, the UK and North America dis
In our contemporary post-modern world, popular forms of spirituality are increasingly engaging with notions of re-enchantment - of self and community. Drawing on case studies of particular groups, including pagans, witches, radical faeries, post-modern tourists, and queer and goddess groups, contributors from Australia, the UK and North America dis
Lynne Hume is Associate Professor in the School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics at the University of Queensland, Australia. Kathleen McPhillips is Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities at the University of Western Sydney, Australia.
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Contents: Introduction, Lynne Hume and Kathleen McPhillips. Part 1 Re-enchantment Tropes in Popular Culture: Liminal beings and the undead: vampires in the 21st century, Lynne Hume; The quest for identity: spiritual feminist ritual as an enactment of medieval romance, Patricia Rose; The Goddess Tour: spiritual tourism/postmodern pilgrimage in search of Atlantis, Bob Hodge; Discworld and otherworld: the imaginative use of fantasy literature among pagans, Graham Harvey; Superheroes and the development of latent abilities: a hyper-real re-enchantment?, Adam Possamai; Memorialization and immortality: religion, community and the internet, Margaret Gibson. Part 2 Queer Enchantment and Religious Borderlands: Enchanting camp: a case study of queer politics through the medium of ritual performance, Michael Carden; Entheogens, elves and other entities: encountering the spirits of shamanic plants and substances, Des Tramacchi; Enchanting women: priestessing in America, Wendy Griffin; Becoming Radical Faerie: queering the spirit of the circle, Bill Rodgers; Drumming and re-enchantment: creating spiritual community, Tanice G. Foltz. Part 3 Disrupting the Rational: Enchantment as Political Response: Believing in post-modernity: technologies of enchantment in contemporary Marian devotion, Kathleen McPhillips; Practising New Age soteriologies in the rational order, Steven J. Sutcliffe; 'There's bulldozers in the fairy garden': re-enchantment narratives within British eco-paganism, Andy Letcher; Reclaiming the future at Goolengook: going feral and becoming native in Australia, Graham St John. Index.
Contents: Introduction, Lynne Hume and Kathleen McPhillips. Part 1 Re-enchantment Tropes in Popular Culture: Liminal beings and the undead: vampires in the 21st century, Lynne Hume; The quest for identity: spiritual feminist ritual as an enactment of medieval romance, Patricia Rose; The Goddess Tour: spiritual tourism/postmodern pilgrimage in search of Atlantis, Bob Hodge; Discworld and otherworld: the imaginative use of fantasy literature among pagans, Graham Harvey; Superheroes and the development of latent abilities: a hyper-real re-enchantment?, Adam Possamai; Memorialization and immortality: religion, community and the internet, Margaret Gibson. Part 2 Queer Enchantment and Religious Borderlands: Enchanting camp: a case study of queer politics through the medium of ritual performance, Michael Carden; Entheogens, elves and other entities: encountering the spirits of shamanic plants and substances, Des Tramacchi; Enchanting women: priestessing in America, Wendy Griffin; Becoming Radical Faerie: queering the spirit of the circle, Bill Rodgers; Drumming and re-enchantment: creating spiritual community, Tanice G. Foltz. Part 3 Disrupting the Rational: Enchantment as Political Response: Believing in post-modernity: technologies of enchantment in contemporary Marian devotion, Kathleen McPhillips; Practising New Age soteriologies in the rational order, Steven J. Sutcliffe; 'There's bulldozers in the fairy garden': re-enchantment narratives within British eco-paganism, Andy Letcher; Reclaiming the future at Goolengook: going feral and becoming native in Australia, Graham St John. Index.
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