Popular Spiritualities: The Politics of Contemporary Enchantment

Abstract

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