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Title: Witchcraft: A Concise Guide by Isaac Bonewits ISBN: 1-59405-500-9 Publisher: New Age World Publishing Pub. Date: January, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.37 (19 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This will annoy all kinds of fundamentalists
Comment: This ebook demolishes all the fake history that Christians and Wiccans have both built up around witchcraft. Yes he got a few dates wrong, but the typo list on his website says a new edition will be out in August without the mistakes. I think the sarcasm this ebook is getting has more to do with exploded myths and lies that some famous Pagan authors and founders of Wiccan trads have built careers on than anything else.
The book is fun to read but gives readers solid historical information and a great book list to let them go further. He seems to know that the Goddess is Eternal even if Wicca is young, that the only Devil worshipping witches were invented by the Christians, and that *honest* scholarship can mix with *honest* faith. He also includes an explanation of *why* Wiccan rituals are they way they are and how to make them better!
I recommend this to everyone who wants a concentrated blast of reality about old and new Witchcraft.
Rating: 5
Summary: This will annoy all kinds of fundamentalists
Comment: This ebook demolishes all the fake history that Christians and Wiccans have both built up around witchcraft. Yes he got a few dates wrong, but the typo list on his website says a new edition will be out in August without the mistakes. I think the sarcasm this ebook is getting has more to do with exploded myths and lies that some famous Pagan authors and founders of Wiccan trads have built careers on than anything else.
The book is fun to read but gives readers solid historical information and a great book list to let them go further. He seems to know that the Goddess is Eternal even if Wicca is young, that the only Devil worshipping witches were invented by the Christians, and that *honest* scholarship can mix with *honest* faith. He also includes an explanation of *why* Wiccan rituals are they way they are and how to make them better!
I recommend this to everyone who wants a concentrated blast of reality about old and new Witchcraft.
Rating: 2
Summary: Good Introduction to Wicca's History
Comment: I think Bonewits' new book provides a good introduction to Wicca, its history, and some of the many problems and questions that are raised by that history. This is a good next step for readers who found articles like the Atlantic Monthly's "The Scholars and the Goddess" (by Charlotte Allen in the January 2001 issue) interesting but too short. I would certainly recommend this book to someone who's curious but doesn't want to make the commitment to a long scholarly text.
For those readers who have a better understanding of Wicca and its history, you may be disappointed. Bonewits' text fulfills its purpose, but it does not provide a great deal of new ideas or research material aside from some of the methodological concepts such as Bonewits' classifications of witchcraft. There are also some typos and factual errors due in part from conflicting sources. This book does not present an "authoritative" or completely factual history of Wicca--partly because so much research is being done in the field right now that any text becomes outdated the moment it is frozen in published form, but also because of the mistakes it does have. Those who have an abiding interest in Wicca's history or are writing a paper, article, or report should probably turn towards a more careful and exhaustive history, such as "The Triumph of the Moon" by Ronald Hutton or the recent research of Philip Heselton in "Wiccan Roots."
This book serves as a good "beginners" introduction to Wicca, its history, and its abiding controversies, but it falls short of an erudite scholarly or authoritative history due to typos, outdated and conflicting sources, and the omissions necessary for brevity and simplicity.
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Title: Rites of Worship: A Neopagan Approach by Isaac Bonewits ISBN: 1594055017 Publisher: Dubsar House Publishing Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Real Magic: An Introductory Treatise on the Basic Principles of Yellow Magic by Isaac Bonewits ISBN: 0877286884 Publisher: Weiser Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1989 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft by Ronald Hutton ISBN: 0192854496 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Veil's Edge: Exploring the Boundaries of Magic by Willow Polson, M. Macha Nightmare ISBN: 0806523522 Publisher: Citadel Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Elements of Ritual: Air, Fire, Water & Earth in the Wiccan Circle by Deborah Lipp ISBN: 073870301X Publisher: Llewellyn Publications Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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