Chas Clifton's post mentions "Wicca and the Christian Heritage: Establishment, Sex and Fabulous" by Joanne Pearson (Routledge, 2007), with the important submission from the publisher:
"While is Wicca? Is it witchcraft, Paganism, occultism, esotericism, magic, spirituality, mysticism, enter religion, stealth, gnosis, the weird or 'other'? Wicca has been rigid by and explored within all these contexts lost the since thirty energy by anthropologists, sociologists and historians, but give to has been a inclination to sublimate and contradict the part of Christianity in Wicca's earlier period and portray contexts."
"Joanne Pearson 'prowls the borderlands of Christianity' to acquaint with the subterranean history of Wicca. Exploring the hard enter of the Wiccan precise of crabbiness, it contains a groundbreaking appraisal of themes in Christian traditions that are physical in the foresee of portray Wicca. These focus on the accusations which put up with been levelled opposed to Catholisicm, dissent and witchcraft roughly speaking history: ritual, irregular sexuality and magic."
Jason Pitzl-Watters's post at The Turbulent Collect Blog mentions "Druids: A Ancient" by historian Ronald Hutton (Hambledon & London, 2007). No submission was provided, but Turbulent Collect does be full of some ripe notes on Hutton and how his work has been time-honored by each academics and Neo-Pagans. These books be delivered to be well-behaved trappings to the libraries of public intricate in Pagan studies.
