ISBN:
978-1-78238-646-9
Language:
English
Pages:
VIII, 315 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
EASA Series 26
Keywords:
Europa Paganismus
;
Religiöse Bewegung
;
Religion
;
Religionsethnologie
Abstract:
Pagan and Native Faith movements have sprung up across Europe in recent decades, yet little has been published about them compared with British and American Pagans. Though all such movements valorize human relationships with nature and embrace polytheistic cosmologies, practitioners' beliefs, practices, goals and agendas are diverse. Often side by sideare 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. Review: "Rountree's welcome and timely edited volume addresses topical, cutting-edge issues with regard to contemporary European Pagan and Native Faith movements. Focusing on the theoretical richness born out of the tensions found between 'the local' and 'the global,' past and present, the volume provides a refreshing approach to understanding these movements." * Amy Whitehead, University of Wales Trinity Saint David
Description / Table of Contents:
List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Context is Everything: Plurality and Paradox in Contemporary European Paganisms Kathryn Rountree Chapter 1. Sami Neo-shamanism in Norway: Colonial Grounds, Ethnic Revival and Pagan Pathways Siv Ellen Kraft Chapter 2. It's Not Easy Being Apolitical: Reconstruction and Eclecticism in Danish Asatro Matthew H. Amster Chapter 3. Modern Heathenism in Sweden: A Case Study in the Creation of a Traditional Religion Fredrik Gregorius Chapter 4. The Brotherhood of Wolves, Czech Republic: From Asatru to Primitivism Kamila Velkoborska Chapter 5. Soviet-era Discourse and Siberian Shamanic Revivalism: How Area Spirits Speak through Academia Eleanor Peers Chapter 6. In Search of Genuine Religion: The Contemporary Estonian MaausulisedMovement and Nationalist Discourse Ergo-Hart Vastrik Chapter 7. Emerging Identity Marketsof Contemporary Pagan Ideologies in Hungary Tamas Szilagyi Chapter 8. Hot, Strange, Folkish, Cosmopolitan: Native Faith and Neopagan Witchcraft in Berlin's Changing Urban Context Victoria Hegner Chapter 9. Paganism in Ireland: Syncretic Processes, Identity and a Sense of Place Jenny Butler Chapter 10. On the Sticks and Stones of the Greencraft Temple in Flanders: Balancing Global and Local Heritage in Wicca Leon van Gulik Chapter 11. Iberian Paganism: Goddess Spirituality in Spain and Portugal and the Quest for Authenticity Anna Fedele Chapter 12. Bellisama and Aradia: Paganism Re-emerges in Italy Francesca Ciancimino Howell Chapter 13. Authenticity and Invention in the Quest for a Modern Maltese Paganism Kathryn Rountree Notes on Contributors Index
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