Aloha,
On 1/5/2006 at 11:59 AM Daniel Harms wrote:
>Regarding this discussion, I should point out that there's an article on
>"The Commodification of Witchcraft" in the new WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC:
>CONTEMPORARY NORTH AMERICA from U. Penn Press. It deals with many of
>these issues regarding the popularization of Wicca, though I was hoping
>for something more in-depth.
Thanx. I'll add the book to my wanna-get list.
What I was trying to get at in my earlier post is that, considering the
sort of
culture that we live in, Neo-Paganism and Wicca/wicca could only develop
in and through popular/lowbrow/mass culture. It's been popularized in the
sense that more people know about it, but not in the sense that it was once
aristocratic/highbrow/elite.
Musing The *Culture* Is Always Higher On The Other Side Of The Theatre!
Rose,
Pitch
Above all, she wished desparately she knew that key word that
spoken would make the world right again.
--Alexei Panshin, *Star Well*
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