Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Part I: The Voices That Inspired
• Chapter 1: Charge of the Goddess - Doreen Valiente
• Chapter 2: Sacred Narratives - Starhawk
• Chapter 3: I Am a Pagan - Selena Fox
• Chapter 4: A Religion without Converts - Margot Adler
• Chapter 5: Why Women Need the Goddess: Phenomenological, Psychological, and Political Reflections - Carol P. Christ
• Part II: Introduction to Nature or Earth Religions
• Chapter 6: We Cast Our Circles Where the Earth Mother Meets the Sky Father - Sarah Pike
• Chapter 7: Definitions and Expressions of Nature Religion in Shamanic Traditions and Contemporary Paganism - Barbara Jane Davy
• Chapter 8: Paganism as a World Religion - Michael York
• Part III: Contemporary Neopaganism and Witchcraft
• Chapter 9: Druidry - Graham Harvey
• Chapter 10: To the Tribe Let There Be Children Born - Helen A. Berger
• Chapter 11: Wicked Witches of the West: Exploring Court Treatments of Wicca as a Religion - Lori G. Beaman
• Chapter 12: In Defence of Magic: Philosophical and Theological Rationalization - Tanya Luhrmann
• Chapter 13: Witch Wars: Factors Contributing to Conflict in Canadian Witchcraft Communities - Sian Ried
• Chapter 14: Constructing Identity and Divinity: Creating Community in an Elder Religion within a Postmodern World - Jenny Blain
• Chapter 15: Weaving a Tangled Web? Pagan Ethics and Issues of History, ""Race,"" and Ethnicity in Pagan Identity - Ann-Marie Gallagher
• Part IV: Feminist Spirituality and Goddess Worship
• Chapter 16: Mother and Goddess: The Ideological Force of Symbols - Lucie Marie-Mai DuFresne
• Chapter 17: The Embodied Goddess: Feminist Witchcraft and Female Divinity - Wendy Griffin
• Chapter 18: Finding a Goddess - Ronald Hutton
• Chapter 19: The Roots of Feminist Spirituality - Cynthia Eller
• Chapter 20: The Colonial Mythology of Feminist Witchcraft - Chris Klassen

About the Author

Dr. Sian Ried is a lecturer in the Sociology and Anthropology department at Carleton University. She is currently the lead researcher with the Canadian Pagan Survey Project.

Reviews

This is a very important anthology to publish. No other anthology addresses Canadian Paganism to this extent. This volume certainly reflects the need to address the growing popularity of Paganism as a new religious movement in Canada."" - Chris Klassen, Wilfrid Laurier University