Wicca, Esotericism and Living Nature: Assessing Wicca as Nature Religion
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/pome.v13.i10.14544Keywords:
Neo-paganism, wicca, esotericism, nature religionAbstract
'Nature Religion' is a relatively recent academic construct under which a variety of religions have been grouped including Paganism, eco-spirituality, and indigenous religions.References
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Symons, Arthur (1908), London: A Book of Aspects, Minneapolis: Privately printed, Edward D. Brooks.
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Barrie, J.M. (1906), ‘Peter Pan in Kensington Garden’ in The Little White Bird, London: Hodder and Stoughton.
Baudelaire, Charles (1992), Selected Writings on Art and Literature, translated by P. E. Charvet, Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Baudelaire, Charles (1989), The Poems in Prose, edited and translated by Francis Scarfe, London: Anvil Press.
Corbin, Henry ([1958], 1969), Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn ‘Arabi, Princeton: Princeton University Press (published originally in French as L’Imagination créatrice dans le Soufisme d’Ibn ‘Arabi, Paris: Flammarion).
Crowley, Vivianne (1998), ‘Wicca as Nature Religion’ in Pearson, J. et al (eds), Nature Religion Today: Paganism in the Modern World, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 170-179.
Faivre, Antoine (1994), Access to Western Esotericism, New York: SUNY.
Fowlie, Wallace (1900), Poem and Symbol: A Brief History of French Symbolism, Philadelphia: Pennsylvannia University Press.
Fox, Robin Lane (1988), Pagans and Christians in the Mediterranean world from the second century AD to the conversion of Constantine, Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Freeman, Nicholas P. (1999), Literary Representations of London, 1905-1909: A Study of Ford Madox Ford, Arthur Symons, John Davidson and Henry James, University of Bristol: unpublished PhD thesis.
Grahame, Kenneth (1908), The Wind in the Willows, London: Methuen & Co.
Hanegraaff, Wouter J. (1999), ‘Some Remarks on the Study of Western Esotericism’ in Esoterica 1 (I), 3-19 [Available from http://www.esoteric. msu.edu/].
Hanegraaff, Wouter J. (1998), ‘Reflections on New Age and the Secularisation of Nature’ in Pearson et al. (eds), Nature Religion Today: Paganism in the Modern World, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 22-32.
Hanegraaff, Wouter J. (1995), ‘Empirical method and the study of esotericism’ in Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 7 (2), 99-129.
Hutton, Ronald, (1999), The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft, Oxford: Blackwell
Hutton, Ronald (1996), ‘The Roots of Modern Paganism’ in Harvey, Graham & Charlotte Hardman (eds), Paganism Today: Wiccans, Druids, the Goddess and Ancient Earth Traditions for the Twenty-First Century, London: Thorsons, 3-15.
Machen, Arthur ([1894], 1993), The Great God Pan, London: Creation Books.
Murray, Margaret A. (1921), The Witch Cult in Western Europe: A Study in Anthropology, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Nasr, Seyyed Hossein (1996), Religion and the Order of Nature, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Russell, Jeffrey B. ([1980], 1991), A History of Witchcraft: Sorcerers, Heretics and Pagans, London: Thames & Hudson.
Saki (1982), ‘The Music on the Hill’ from The Chronicles of Clovis (1911), in The Complete Saki, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 161-6.
Scott, Walter (ed.) (1985), Hermetica: the Ancient Greek and Latin Writings which contain Religious or Philosophical Teachings ascribed to Hermes Trimegistus, Boston: Shambala.
Starhawk ([1979], 1989), The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess, San Francisco: HarperCollins.
Symons, Arthur (1908), London: A Book of Aspects, Minneapolis: Privately printed, Edward D. Brooks.
Tolkein, J.R.R. (1954), The Fellowship of the Ring, London: Unwin.
Townsend-Warner, Sylvia ([1926], 2000), Lolly Willowes, or The Loving Huntsman, London: Virago Press.
Williams, Raymond (1975), The Country and the City, St. Albans: Paladin.
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2000-11-01
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Pearson, J. (2000). Wicca, Esotericism and Living Nature: Assessing Wicca as Nature Religion. Pomegranate, 14(Autumn), 4-15. https://doi.org/10.1558/pome.v13.i10.14544
