Witches of America

Witches of America
Author :
Publisher : Sarah Crichton Books
Total Pages : 289
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780374709112
ISBN-13 : 0374709114
Rating : 4/5 (114 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Witches of America by : Alex Mar

Download or read book Witches of America written by Alex Mar and published by Sarah Crichton Books. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Witches are gathering." When most people hear the word "witches," they think of horror films and Halloween, but to the nearly one million Americans who practice Paganism today, witchcraft is a nature-worshipping, polytheistic, and very real religion. So Alex Mar discovers when she sets out to film a documentary and finds herself drawn deep into the world of present-day magic. Witches of America follows Mar on her immersive five-year trip into the occult, charting modern Paganism from its roots in 1950s England to its current American mecca in the San Francisco Bay Area; from a gathering of more than a thousand witches in the Illinois woods to the New Orleans branch of one of the world's most influential magical societies. Along the way she takes part in dozens of rituals and becomes involved with a wild array of characters: a government employee who founds a California priesthood dedicated to a Celtic goddess of war; American disciples of Aleister Crowley, whose elaborate ceremonies turn the Catholic mass on its head; second-wave feminist Wiccans who practice a radical separatist witchcraft; a growing "mystery cult" whose initiates trace their rites back to a blind shaman in rural Oregon. This sprawling magical community compels Mar to confront what she believes is possible-or hopes might be. With keen intelligence and wit, Mar illuminates the world of witchcraft while grappling in fresh and unexpected ways with the question underlying every faith: Why do we choose to believe in anything at all? Whether evangelical Christian, Pagan priestess, or atheist, each of us craves a system of meaning to give structure to our lives. Sometimes we just find it in unexpected places.


Witches of America Related Books

American Mystic
Language: en
Pages: 384
Authors: Arunachala Ramana
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-01-04 - Publisher: eBook Partnership

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

American Mystic is dedicated to all those seeking true and lasting happiness. Ramana's story is gripping, frankly told, providing a fascinating glimpse into Ame
Witches of America
Language: en
Pages: 289
Authors: Alex Mar
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-20 - Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"Witches are gathering." When most people hear the word "witches," they think of horror films and Halloween, but to the nearly one million Americans who practic
America's Mystic Solves Near-Death Riddle
Language: en
Pages: 141
Authors: Eugene Braxton
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-12-15 - Publisher: Archway Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"Dear Mr. Braxton, I appreciate your perspective on your near death experience, grounded as it is in years of prior experience, with out of body visits to other
An American Mystic
Language: en
Pages: 290
Authors: Michael Gurian
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Viking Adult

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

An American psychology student working on a thesis about divine hallucinations is haunted by bizarre dreams. Meanwhile, in Turkey, nearly 100 people experience
Mystic Chords of Memory
Language: en
Pages: 879
Authors: Michael Kammen
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-08-17 - Publisher: Vintage

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Mystic Chords of Memory "Illustrated with hundreds of well-chosen anecdotes and minute observations . . . Kammen is a demon researcher who seems to have mined h