"The Principles of Wiccan Belief" Reprinted in Drawing Down the Moon in 1979 Neo-Paganism is a term applied to a number of related movements that have attempted to revive ancient polytheistic (belief in more than one god) religions of...

NEOPAGANISM. The term Neopagan covers a wide variety of traditions that include re-creations of ancient Celtic Druidism (a British organization of sun worshippers who gathered in sacred groves), Wicca or Witchcraft, ceremonial magic, and neoshamanism...

As a result of the Enlightenment, a period of intellectual rationalism (reasoning) that started in seventeenth-century Europe and came to the United States in the eighteenth century, (see Chapter 5), cultural, social, economic, and technological...

Neopaganism or Neo-Paganism is an umbrella term used to identify a wide variety of modern religious movements, particularly those influenced by historical pre-Christian Pagan religions.[1][2] These movements are extremely diverse, with beliefs that...

GODDESS UNMASKED: THE RISE OF NEOPAGAN FEMINIST SPIRITUALITY. By PHILIP G. DAVIS. Spence. 418 pp. $22.95. IT IS A DOGMA of feminist mythology that before there was God, there was Goddess. A very long time ago (so goes the story), when war,...

A Community of Witches: Contemporary NeoPaganism and Witchcraft in the United States, by HELEN A. BERGER. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1998, 250 pp. $34.95. In Community of witches, Helen Berger discusses the new religious movement of Neo-Paganism and Witchcraft, also...

When George Fain visits a grave to mark a pagan holiday, she won't have to worry about the work she's missing in her classes at Marshall University.That's because her absence Thursday on the Samhain holiday has been approved by the Huntington school, which for the...