Crafting contemporary pagan identities in a Catholic society
By: Kathryn Rountree.
Series: Vitality of indigenous religions series
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Ltd.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780754669739
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Malta; Catholic Church -- Relations -- Neopaganism; Neopaganism -- Malta; Neopaganism -- Relations -- Catholic Church; Malta -- Religion; Malta -- Religious life and customs
Description: "Taking the Mediterranean society of Malta as a case study, this book invites readers inside the world of a small, hidden sub-culture. Showing what it is like being Pagan in a society where the vast majority of the population is Roman Catholic, and Catholicism permeates every sphere of public and domestic, social and political life, Rountree reveals that Paganism here is a unique brew of indigenous and global influences. Pagans employ both creativity and borrowing in constructing identities within a cultural context characterized by antagonism as well as continuity." "This book explores the intersections of religious and cultural identity, the global and local, Paganism and Christianity, with insights grounded in rich ethnographic detail based on long-term fieldwork. Rountree makes invaluable comparisons with other studies of modern Pagans and their various worlds." --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Going between the worlds; title: Background; title: Merry meet : creating and performing pagan identities; title: The circle is open but unbroken : the personal and cultural contexts of paganism; title: The wheel turns; title: Synergies and tensions between the worlds; title: Living a magical life; title: The temples; title: She changes everything she touches.