Teenage Witches: Magical Youth and the Search for the Self
Exposure to movies and television shows like The Craft and Charmed, blended with our common “knowledge” of the moods and motivations of teenagers, leads to the natural supposition that teenagers who declare themselves Witches are mostly interested in shocking their peers and parents, and enjoying th...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
2009
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2009, Volume: 70, Issue: 4, Pages: 458-459 |
| Review of: | Teenage witches (Piscataway, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2007) (Eller, Cynthia)
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| Summary: | Exposure to movies and television shows like The Craft and Charmed, blended with our common “knowledge” of the moods and motivations of teenagers, leads to the natural supposition that teenagers who declare themselves Witches are mostly interested in shocking their peers and parents, and enjoying the power and thrill of casting spells. Helen Berger and Douglas Ezzy, professors at West Chester University and the University of Tasmania, respectively, undertook the task of testing this supposition by interviewing a total of 90 self-identified teenage Witches (or young adult Witches who were teenagers when they first became Witches): 30 in Australia, 30 in the United States, and 30 in England. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srp057 |