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Investigates how we move beyond the conscious and physical world using our senses, into other realities of the spiritual and the divine. This title looks at the techniques used to alter consciousness practiced by shamans, monks, and other religious specialists. These include the use of drugs, as well as drumming, chanting and meditation

Whether the modern practice of Wicca can be prosecuted under medieval laws prohibiting witchcraft.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Plates -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1 Re-enchantment Tropes in Popular Culture -- 1 Liminal Beings and the Undead: Vampires in the 21st Century -- 2 The Quest for Identity: Spiritual Feminist Ritual as an Enactment of Medieval Romance -- 3 The Goddess Tour: Spiritual Tourism/Post-modern Pilgrimage in Search of Atlantis -- 4 Discworld and Otherworld: The Imaginative Use of Fantasy Literature among Pagans -- 5 Superheroes and the Development of Latent Abilities: A Hyper-real Re-enchantment? -- 6 Memorialization and Immortality: Religion, Community and the Internet -- Part 2 Queer Enchantment and Religious Borderlands -- 7 Enchanting Camp: A Case Study of Queer Politics through the Medium of Ritual Performance -- 8 Entheogens, Elves and Other Entities: Encountering the Spirits of Shamanic Plants and Substances -- 9 Enchanting Women: Priestessing in America -- 10 Becoming Radical Faerie: Queering the Spirit of the Circle -- 11 Drumming and Re-enchantment: Creating Spiritual Community -- Part 3 Disrupting the Rational: Enchantment as Political Response -- 12 Believing in Post-modernity: Technologies of Enchantment in Contemporary Marian Devotion -- 13 Practising New Age Soteriologies in the Rational Order -- 14 'There's Bulldozers in the Fairy Garden': Re-enchantment Narratives within British Eco-Paganism -- 15 Reclaiming the Future at Goolengook: Going Feral and Becoming Native in Australia -- Index