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Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Modern Paganism

Kathryn Rountree (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

276 Seiten

2016 | 1st ed. 2017
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-57040-6 (ISBN)

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This volume explores how Pagans negotiate local and global tensions as they craft their identities, both as members of local communities and as cosmopolitan “citizens of the world.” Based on cutting edge international case studies from Pagan communities in the United States, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Israel, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Malta, it considers how modern Pagans negotiate tensions between the particular and universal, nationalism and cosmopolitanism, ethnicity, and world citizenship. The burgeoning of modern Paganisms in recent decades has proceeded alongside growing globalization and human mobility, ubiquitous Internet use, a mounting environmental crisis, the re-valuing of indigenous religions, and new political configurations. Cosmopolitanism and nationalism have both influenced the weaving of unique local Paganisms in diverse contexts. Pagans articulate a strong attachment to local or indigenous traditions and landscapes, constructing paths that reflect local socio-cultural, political, and historical realities. However, they draw on the Internet and the global circulation of people and universal ideas. This collection considers how they confound these binaries in fascinating, complex ways as members of local communities and global networks.

Kathryn Rountree is Professor of Anthropology at Massey University, New Zealand. She has published on contemporary Paganism in Malta and New Zealand, feminist spirituality, sacred sites, shamanism and animism. Books include Contemporary Pagan and Native Faith Movements in Europe (2015), Crafting Contemporary Pagan Identities in a Catholic Society (2010), Embracing the Witch and the Goddess (2004) and the co-edited Archaeology of Spiritualities (2012).

Introduction. “We are the Weavers, We are the Web”: Cosmopolitan Entanglements in Modern Paganism.- Appropriating, Romanticizing and Reimagining: Pagan Engagements with Indigenous Animism.- Heathens in the United States: The Return to “Tribes” in the Construction of a Peoplehood.- Only Slavic Gods: Nativeness in Polish Rodzimowierstwo.- Obsessed with Culture: The Cultural Impetus of Russian Neo-pagans.- Multiple Nationalisms and Patriotisms among Russian Rodnovers.- Blood Brothers or Blood Enemies: Ukrainian Pagans’ Beliefs and Responses to the Ukraine-Russia Crisis.- Canaanite Reconstructionism among Contemporary Israeli Pagans.- Pagan Identity Politics, Witchcraft, and the Law: Encounters with Postcolonial Nationalism in Democratic South Africa.- Cosmopolitan Witchcraft: Reinventing the Wheel of the Year in Australian Paganism.- Cosmopolitanism, Neo-Shamans, and Contemporary Māori Healers in New Zealand.- The Spirits are Cosmopolitan too: Contemporary Shamanism in Malta.

Erscheinungsdatum	04.01.2017
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities
Zusatzinfo	9 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
Schlagworte	Ancestral Fire of Slavic Native Faith • Contemporary Paganism and Globalisation • Indigenous culture • indigenous religion • Internet and religion • Modern Paganism • Modern western Witchcraft • Native Faith • Nature and culture • New Religions
ISBN-10	1-137-57040-7 / 1137570407
ISBN-13	978-1-137-57040-6 / 9781137570406
Zustand	Neuware