Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Modern Paganism
This volume explores how Pagans negotiate local and global tensions as they craft their identities, both as members of local communities and as cosmopolitan “citizens of the world.” Based on cutting edge international case studies from Pagan communities in the United States, Poland, Russia, Ukraine,...
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2017.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2017. |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56200-5 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction. “We are the Weavers, We are the Web”: Cosmopolitan Entanglements in Modern Paganism
- Appropriating, Romanticizing and Reimagining: Pagan Engagements with Indigenous Animism
- Heathens in the United States: The Return to “Tribes” in the Construction of a Peoplehood
- Only Slavic Gods: Nativeness in Polish Rodzimowierstwo
- Obsessed with Culture: The Cultural Impetus of Russian Neo-pagans
- Multiple Nationalisms and Patriotisms among Russian Rodnovers
- Blood Brothers or Blood Enemies: Ukrainian Pagans’ Beliefs and Responses to the Ukraine-Russia Crisis
- Canaanite Reconstructionism among Contemporary Israeli Pagans
- Pagan Identity Politics, Witchcraft, and the Law: Encounters with Postcolonial Nationalism in Democratic South Africa
- Cosmopolitan Witchcraft: Reinventing the Wheel of the Year in Australian Paganism
- Cosmopolitanism, Neo-Shamans, and Contemporary Māori Healers in New Zealand
- The Spirits are Cosmopolitan too: Contemporary Shamanism in Malta.