The myth of the burning times and the politics of resistance in contemporary American Wicca
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Shuck, Glenn W.
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2000
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Many contemporary Wiccans organize their narratives of oppression around the historical model of the Burning Times - the early-modern persecution of witches, i.e. women and marginalized persons, providing them a powerful set of symbols to organize their concerns. These narratives seek to transcend questions of victimization and provide Wiccans with a means of resisting totalizing pressures and also help create novel formations of the self and community. This remains a tenuous process, exacerbated by conflicting responses within Wicca to the needs of a growing religion. The creative aspects of the Burning Times mythology, however, do present an idealistic set of possibilities.
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Shuck, Glenn W. (2000), The myth of the burning times and the politics of resistance in contemporary American Wicca. Journal of Religion & Society, 2.
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Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University
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1522-5658