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Cargando... Witches of America (2015)por Alex Mar
   Top Five Books of 2015 (762) Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.  tebyen | May 27, 2020 |   When I get rich I am starting a writing fellowship for fat, freaky and/or broke-down women to write books, added incentive if you can't thank your parents. (  ) uncleflannery | May 16, 2020 | Uninspired writing, a weird obsession with bodies that reminds me of dark teenage ED thinking, and a totally disingenuous "seeker" narrative. Overall vibe? Insecure 30 something wants to write a book that sells, has a lot of body and class hangups, and hopes that vaguely exotic topic will mask her frankly boring writing. Alas. Shouldn't have expected academic tone from pop journalism. (  ) urnmo | Jul 29, 2019 | As a note, there is a disturbing section of this book that goes into a very dark subset of witchcraft including necromancy and graverobbing. I have read quite a bit about American Wicca and never came across anything like this before -- it's very disturbing and I truly hope we are reading the ravings of an unstable daydreamer rather than true acts (they are technically unverified by the author). This section is not for the squeamish. ( )1  sparemethecensor | Dec 8, 2018 | 2 ritaer | Sep 8, 2016 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"Witches are gathering." When most people hear the word "witches," they think of horror films and Halloween, but to the nearly one million Americans who practice Paganism today, witchcraft is a nature-worshipping, polytheistic, and very real religion. So Alex Mar discovers when she sets out to film a documentary and finds herself drawn deep into the world of present-day magic. Witches of America follows Mar on her immersive five-year trip into the occult, charting modern Paganism from its roots in 1950s England to its current American mecca in the San Francisco Bay Area; from a gathering of more than a thousand witches in the Illinois woods to the New Orleans branch of one of the world's most influential magical societies. Along the way she takes part in dozens of rituals and becomes involved with a wild array of characters. This sprawling magical community compels Mar to confront what she believes is possible--or hopes might be. With keen intelligence and wit, Mar illuminates the world of witchcraft while grappling in fresh and unexpected ways with the question underlying every faith: Why do we choose to believe in anything at all?--Adapted from book jacket. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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What this book isn't: A book about magic. A detailed look at those various religions. If you're looking for the former, this is a great book to read. The author gives us a detailed look at her thought process and her emotions as she searches for something she just can't quite grasp.
Some parts of the book do fall flat. Especially when she's talking about the groups she didn't particularly click with. And the book suffers from some follow up on a few things that felt like they were just left hanging.
On top of that the chapter on the Satanic scare of the 80s/90s just felt shoehorned in. It didn't fit the tone of the rest of the book.
For all of that, it was still an interesting peak into the life of a well to do woman looking for something more to enrich her life than that of material possessions. (