| Reviews |
| - 'Hutton's professional expertise shows paganism in a new light' - Katrina Dixon The Scotman, 24/02/01
- 'this work ... makes for excellent reading. Hutton's extensive scholarship allows him to make and clarify connections between people and movements in recent centuries.' - Northern Earth, No.83.
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| Description | | - Ideal reading for anyone interested in witchcraft/alternative religions...
- Well known and distinguished historian.
| | Ronald Hutton is known for his colourful and provocative writings on original subjects. This work is no exception: for the first full-scale scholarly study of the only religion England has ever given the world; that of modern pagan witchcraft, which has now spread from English shores across four continents. Hutton examines the nature of that religion and its development, and offers a
microhistory of attitudes to paganism, witchcraft, and magic in British society since 1800. Its pages reveal village cunning folk, Victorian ritual magicians, classicists and archaeologists, leaders of woodcraft and scouting movements, Freemasons, and members of rural secret societies. We also find some of the leading of figures of English literature, from the Romantic poets to W.B. Yeats, D.H.
Lawrence, and Robert Graves, as well as the main personalities who have represented pagan witchcraft to the world since 1950. Densely researched, Triumph of the Moon presents an authoritative insight into a hitherto little-known aspect of modern social history. |
Readership: Students and scholars of 19th and 20th century British/Western cultural history: also of religion, anthropology, sociology, literature. General readers.
| Contents |
Macrocosm
1.
Finding a Language
2.
Finding a Goddess
3.
Finding a God
4.
Finding a Structure
5.
Finding a High Magic
6.
Finding a Low Magic
7.
Finding a Folklore
8.
Finding a Witchcraft
9.
Matrix
10.
God (and Goddess) Parents
Microcosm
11.
Gerald Gardner
12.
Gerald's People
13.
The Wider Context: Hostility
14.
The Wider Context: Reinforcement
15.
Old Craft, New Craft
16.
The Man in Black
17.
Royalty from the North
18.
Uncle Sam and the Goddess
19.
Coming of Age
20.
Grandchildren of the Shadows
Notes
Index
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Ronald Hutton, Professor of History, Bristol University
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