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As Western ethnographers spread out across the globe trying to make sense of the practices of other people, they unconsciously carried with them ethnocentric assumptions about magic and religion. Victorian interest in occult science and magic coincided with political upheavals around historical axes of power. While both Murray’s witch-cult theory and Gardner’s ancient claims have since been disproven, Wicca nonetheless represents an impressive case of religious inspiration based in anthropology. Her monograph, Religious, Feminist, Activist: Cosmologies of Interconnection (2018), investigates intersections between religion, gender, and politics among social justice activists.

Ivory’s experience and expertise emphasize that words like magic and witchcraft change moral meaning as they move across social contexts. Not only is it a matter of empirical fact that there are BIPOC individuals who identify as Witches and who understand their ancestral traditions as forms of Witchcraft religions, but the shift is also political. These witch bells are wonderfully crafted, a little bit smaller than I thought they might be, but are exactly as pictured. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

But in this moment when making real change requires solidarity across identities, it is time for white-dominant spaces like academe and contemporary Pagan communities to conscientiously open it back up. This book analyzes the gendered transformation of magical figures occurring in Arthurian romance in England from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries.I am a Puerto Rican artist focusing on acrylic paintings, knit bags, sewn items and other crafty goods that we sell. Witch hunting continues around the world today, local fears exacerbated by particular forms of exclusivist Christianity—products of colonially inflected missionizing.

In this text, the author talks a lot about "binary gendering" - men who take on female witchlike characteristics and women who take on those of men. When I think of a traditional Grimoire or Book of Shadows, I think of beautiful illustrations alongside thorough information; and that is what I thought of when I created Magick. The Spell Journal: an illustrated guide into the realm of spellwork and the art of crafting your very own spells. I have never used item creation feats or done any crafting with any of my characters, past, or present. This lead to several practical responses: some activists abandoned religion as inherently oppressive and irredeemable; some focused attention on reforming their religious institutions to support social justice, such as feminist, Black, and Womanist theologies, especially within Western traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam; and some developed their own, new religious movements, such as Goddess religions, feminist Witchcraft, and other forms of Paganism formulated to create social change rather than reinforce historical oppressions.Turning off the personalized advertising setting won’t stop you from seeing Etsy ads, but it may make the ads you see less relevant or more repetitive.