Enchanted Feminism
Subtitle: The Reclaiming Witches of San Francisco (Religion and Gender)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 21, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780415223935
First sentence: The public appearance of ritualizing women, men and children in urban area in the western world is no longer unusual.
Description: This is the first major study of the most famous contemporary witch community, written by an author who herself participated in a coven for ten years. It examines the Reclaiming community of witches, founded in 1979 in San Francisco, analyzing how it has constructed gendered religious identities. Jone Salomonsen describes and examines the communal and ritual processes and practices of Reclaiming, and how these cause and promote personal growth and cultural-religious change.