A01=Susan Greenwood
anthropology of religion
Author_Susan Greenwood
Category=JHBA
Category=JHM
Category=WN
Common Language
consciousness studies
Context Specific Expression
Corpus Hermeticum
Cuttle Fish
Deep Ecology
ecological spirituality
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
Fairy Tales
Feminist Witchcraft
Fire Flies
folklore
Good Life
Hereditary Witch
magical consciousness
mythological symbolism
Native American Medicine Wheel
Natural World
nature religion
qualitative ethnography
Radio Carbon
Romany Gypsy
shamanic practices
Societas Rosicruciana
spiritual ecology research
St James's Church
St James’s Church
Tegg's Nose
Tegg’s Nose
Vice Versa
West Wood
Western Mystery Tradition
Western Occult Tradition
Western witches
Wild Hunt
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781845200947
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 May 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
This book examines how and why practitioners of nature religion - Western witches, druids, shamans - seek to relate spiritually with nature through 'magical consciousness'. 'Magic' and 'consciousness' are concepts that are often fraught with prejudice and ambiguity respectively. Greenwood develops a new theory of magical consciousness by arguing that magic ultimately has more to do with the workings of the human mind in terms of an expanded awareness than with socio-cultural explanations. She combines her own subjective insights gained from magical practice with practitioners' in-depth accounts and sustained academic theory on the process of magic. She also tracks magical consciousness in philosophy, myth, folklore, story-telling, and the hi-tech discourse of postmodernity, and asks important questions concerning nature religion's environmental credentials, such as whether it as inherently ecological as many of its practitioners claim.
Susan Greenwood is Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the University of Sussex.
