Research Catalog

Title

The triumph of the moon : a history of modern pagan witchcraft / Ronald Hutton.

Author

Hutton, Ronald

Publication

• Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Description

xvii, 516 pages : illustrations (black and white); 24 cm

Summary

"This is the second, and extensively revised, edition of the first full-scale scholarly study of what is arguably the only fully-formed religion that England has ever given the world: that of modern pagan witchcraft, which has now spread from English shores across four continents. Ronald Hutton examines the nature of that religion and its development, and offers a history of attitudes to witchcraft, paganism and magic in British society since 1800. Its pages reveal village cunning folk, Victorian ritual magicians, classicists and archaeologists, leaders of woodcraft and scouting movements, Freemasons, and members of rural secret societies. We also find some of the leading figures of English literature, from the Romantic poets to W. B. Yeats, D. H. Lawrence and Robert Graves, as well as the main personalities who have represented pagan witchcraft to the public world since 1950. Thriller writers like Dennis Wheatley, and films and television programmes, get similar coverage, as does tabloid journalism. The material is by its very nature often sensational, and care is taken throughout to distinguish fact from fantasy, in a manner not hitherto applied to most of the stories involved. Consistently densely researched, Triumph of the Moon presents an authoritative insight into an aspect of modern cultural history which has attracted sensational publicity but has hitherto been little understood. This edition incorporates all of the new research carried out into the subject by the author, and by others who have often been inspired by this book, during the twenty years since it was first published."--Publisher's website.

Subjects

• Witchcraft
• Neopaganism
• Great Britain
• Witchcraft > Great Britain > History > 19th century
• Witchcraft > Great Britain > History > 20th century
• Religion
• 1800-1999
• History
• Great Britain > Religion > 20th century
• Great Britain > Religion > 19th century
• Neopaganism > Great Britain > History > 20th century
• Neopaganism > Great Britain > History > 19th century

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Previous edition: 1999.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Macrocosm -- 1. Finding a Language -- 2. Finding a Goddess -- 3. Finding a God -- 4. Finding a Structure -- 5. Finding a High Magic -- 6. Finding a Low Magic -- 7. Finding a Folklore -- 8. Finding a Witchcraft -- 9. Matrix -- 10. God (and Goddess) Parents -- Microcosm -- 11. Gerald Gardner -- 12. Gerald's People -- 13. The Wider Context: Hostility -- 14. The Wider Context: Reinforcement -- 15. Old Craft, New Craft -- 16. The Man in Black -- 17. Royalty from the North -- 18. Uncle Sam and the Goddess -- 19. Coming of Age -- 20. Grandchildren of the Shadows.

Call Number

JFE 20-2402

ISBN

• 9780198827368
• 0198827369

LCCN

2019944903

OCLC

1112371897

Author

Hutton, Ronald, author.

Title

The triumph of the moon : a history of modern pagan witchcraft / Ronald Hutton.

Publisher

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Edition

New edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1800-1999

Research Call Number

JFE 20-2402