The Morrigan as a “Dark Goddess”: A Goddess Re-Imagined Through Therapeutic Self-Narration of Women on Social Media

This research examines the contemporary worship of an Irish folkloric figure, the Morrigan, as expressed on the new media platform of YouTube, and within the context of the wider concept of the Dark Goddess. While narratives of a “dark”’ Goddess existed in earlier Pagan and Goddess-focused texts, ma...

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Subtitles:Special Issue: Paganism, art, and fashion
Main Author: Warren, Áine (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox Publ. [2019]
In: The pomegranate
Year: 2019, Volume: 21, Issue: 2, Pages: 237-255
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Morrígan, Fictitious character / YouTube / Neopaganism / Celts / Mythology / Goddess / Black magic / Psychotherapy
RelBib Classification:AE Psychology of religion
AG Religious life; material religion
AZ New religious movements
ZD Psychology
Further subjects:B The Morrigan
B Online Religion
B Social media
B Youtube
B Neopaganism
B Contemporary Paganism
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