
Contemporary Pagan and Native Faith Movements in Europe
Colonialist and Nationalist Impulses
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Contemporary Pagan and Native Faith Movements in Europe
Colonialist and Nationalist Impulses
About this book
Pagan and Native Faith movements have sprung up across Europe in recent decades, yet little has been published about them compared with their British and American counterparts. Though all such movements valorize human relationships with nature and embrace polytheistic cosmologies, practitioners' beliefs, practices, goals, and agendas are diverse. Often side by side are groups trying to reconstruct ancient religions motivated by ethnonationalismāespecially in post-Soviet societiesāand 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.
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Table of contents
- Contemporary Pagan and Native Faith Movements in Europe
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction Context Is EverythingContext Is Everything
- 1 Sami Neo-shamanism in Norway
- 2 Itās Not Easy Being ApoliticalItās Not Easy Being Apolitical
- 3 Modern Heathenism in Sweden
- 4 The Brotherhood of Wolves in the CzechĀ Republic
- 5 Soviet-Era Discourse and Siberian Shamanic Revivalism
- 6 In Search of Genuine Religion
- 7 Emerging Identity Markets of Contemporary Pagan Ideologies in Hungary
- 8 Hot, Strange, Vƶlkisch, Cosmopolitan
- 9 Paganism in Ireland
- 10 On the Sticks and Stones of the Greencraft Temple in Flanders
- 11 Iberian Paganism
- 12 Bellisama and Aradia
- 13 Authenticity and Invention in the Quest for a Modern Maltese Paganism
- Contributors
- Index