ABSTRACT

This is the first major study of the most famous Reclaiming Witch community, founded in 1979 in San Francisco, written by an author who herself participated in a coven for ten years. Jone Salomonsen describes and examines the communal and ritual practices of Reclaiming, asking how these promote personal growth and cultural-religious change.

chapter |30 pages

Introduction

part |2 pages

Part I Guardians of the world

chapter 1|34 pages

The Reclaiming community

A feminist, social construction

chapter 2|30 pages

Wicca revival

Starhawk and the myth of ancient origin

chapter 3|32 pages

Utopian and generic Witches

Revitalizing western spiritualities

chapter 4|34 pages

Holy hermeneutics

How to find truth

part |2 pages

Part II Priestesses of the craft

chapter 5|32 pages

Elements of magic

Learning to ritualize

chapter 6|25 pages

The Spiral Dance ritual

A celebration of death and rebirth

chapter 7|34 pages

Women’s mysteries

Creating a female symbolic order

chapter 8|34 pages

Initiation

Transforming self