The Creation of “Traditional Witchcraft”
Since the early 1990s, increasing numbers of occultists have come to identify as practitioners of “Traditional Witchcraft”, “Traditional Craft”, or “Old Craft”. This article maps out this milieu, outlining the existence of both its modern Pagan and Luciferian components and in doing so demonstrating...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Brill
2018
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| In: |
Aries
Jahr: 2018, Band: 18, Heft: 2, Seiten: 188-216 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Okkultismus
/ Hexenglaube
/ Satanismus
/ Neuheidentum
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religiöses Leben; materielle Religion AZ Neue Religionen |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Traditional Witchcraft
Witchcraft
Wicca
Luciferianism
Paganism
folk magic
legitimacy
occultism
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| Zusammenfassung: | Since the early 1990s, increasing numbers of occultists have come to identify as practitioners of “Traditional Witchcraft”, “Traditional Craft”, or “Old Craft”. This article maps out this milieu, outlining the existence of both its modern Pagan and Luciferian components and in doing so demonstrating that the term lacks precision for etic scholarly purposes. It follows this by exploring what purpose this term actually serves, examining both its historical development and its contemporary usages to illustrate how it represents a form of rhetorical self-identification adopted by occultists seeking to retain the label of “Witchcraft” while evading associations with “Wicca” and at the same time functioning as a legitimation strategy by foregrounding the inheritance of “tradition”. |
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| ISSN: | 1570-0593 |
| Enthält: | In: Aries
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700593-01802002 |