Researching Paganisms

Researchers of Paganism from a variety of disciplines examine how they have been affected by their contact with this nontraditional religion, how this religion has been affected by academic researchers and what this reveals about participative research methods.

Preface

vii

Introduction

1

(12)

PART ONE PERFORMANCE AND REFLEXIVITY

13

(56)

CHAPTER ONE Bardism and the Performance of Paganism: Implications for the Performance of Research

15

(28)

Andy Letcher

CHAPTER TWO Methods of Compassion or Pretension? The Challenges of Conducting Fieldwork in Modern Magical Communities

43

(16)

Jone Salomonsen

CHAPTER THREE The Deosil Dance

59

(10)

Wendy Griffin

PART TWO CHALLENGING OBJECTIVITY, THEORIZING SUBJECTIVITY

69

(60)

CHAPTER FOUR Psychology of Religion and the Study of Paganism

71

(14)

Melissa Harrington

CHAPTER FIVE Drugs, Books, and Witches

85

(12)

Chas S. Clifton

CHAPTER SIX Gleanings from the Field: Leftover Tales of Grief and Desire

97

(16)

Sarah M. Pike

CHAPTER SEVEN Religious Ethnography: Practicing the Witch's Craft

113

(16)

Douglas Ezzy

PART THREE EMBODYING RELATIONSHIPS, COMMUNITY, AND HISTORY

129

(60)

CHAPTER EIGHT At the Water's Edge: An Ecologically Inspired Methodology

131

(16)

Sylvie Shaw

CHAPTER NINE Thealogies in Process: Re-searching and Theorizing Spiritualities, Subjectivities, and Goddess-talk

147

(24)

Ruth Mantin

CHAPTER TEN Living with Witchcraft

171

(18)

Ronald Hutton

PART FOUR RE-LOCATING THE RESEARCHER

189

(68)

CHAPTER ELEVEN Between the Worlds: Autoarchaeology and Neo-Shamans

191

(26)

Robert J. Wallis

CHAPTER TWELVE Tracing the In/Authentic Seeress: From Seid-Magic to Stone Circles

217

(24)

Jenny Blain

CHAPTER THIRTEEN Pagan Studies or the Study of Paganisms? A Case Study in the Study of Religions

241

(16)

Graham Harvey

Index

257

(12)

About the Contributors

269

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