Dear Kamila,
if you are able to read German articles ... I published one on this
issue in ARIES (Volume 8, Number 2, 2008 , pp. 117-138). See
https://www.academia.edu/229520/Die_Bedeutung_von_Tradition_und_Geheimnis_fur_praktizierende_Magier_des_21._Jahrhunderts_Ergebnisse_einer_Interviewstudie
English abstract:
This article addresses the question of the significance of tradition and
secrecy for practicing ma-gicians from various occult groups of the
twenty-first century. The observations are based upon the results of an
interview study alongside an analysis of contemporary literature
concerning the practice of magic. The significance which is attached to
the ‘occult’ tradition, the transmission of esoteric knowledge and the
figure of the person teaching this knowledge correlates very strongly
with the spiritual alignment of the magical practice. This is especially
pronounced among mystery schools which are oriented towards ‘white
magic’. These concepts, however, play only a relatively marginal role.
This is not true with regard to aspects of secrets and secrecy. Although
the distinct influence of a postmodern relativisation can be ascertained
here, there nevertheless remains understandable functions of secrecy in
both theory and practice. One can no longer, however, take a social
functionality of secrecy, which characterised the secret societies of
the Enlightenment, as a starting point, as the cultural situation of the
twenty-first century has changed too much.
(I have a preliminary and unpublished version of the paper in English.
So if you are interested in it please get in touch with me)
Gerhard
Am 03.09.2014 10:42, schrieb Mgr. Kamila VELKOBORSKA Ph.D.:
> To be more specific, I am working in the area of contemporary paganism and witchcraft... so far I´ve done research in the field and studied a number of primary sources (from the areas of magic, cabbalah, the occult) but I need more texts written by other anthropologists researching the same area with the interest in the topic of secrecy, like e.g. T. Luhrmann...
>
> Thank you!
>
> Kamila
>
> Sobota, 30 Srpen, 2014 22:44 CEST, Debbie Lea<[log in to unmask]> napsal:
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>> Could you be a little more specific Kamilla? ☺
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>> -------- Original message --------
>> From: "Mgr. Kamila VELKOBORSKA Ph.D."
>> Date:30/08/2014 21:33 (GMT+00:00)
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>> Subject: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Secrets and secrecy
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>> Dear all, I am exploring the topic of secret and secrecy in religion... could you, please, direct me to relevant sources dealing with this topic?
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>> I´d be really gratefull :-)
>>
>> Kamila
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