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Summary: Occasionally infuriating but mostly disappointing
Review: First of all, as a non-Wiccan Pagan, I am SO sick and tired of people automatically equating (Neo-)Pagan or Witch with Wicca that I could just scream. Second, this reads like someone's graduate-school thesis, heavy on the academic citations and sociological jargon and light on readability. I minored in anthropology at university and still found it pretty chewy at points. Third, extrapolating the _entire_ Pagan community from a very limited sample (virtually all Wiccan), in my opinion, utterly ridiculous. Certainly it isn't going to tell anyone much about actually _practicing_ the religion, so don't plan on reading it for that purpose. (It will, however, give an all-too-clear view of the backbiting, sniping, and passive-agressive behavior all too common in the Wiccan community. Sigh.)
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Summary: Tedious
Review: I have wanted this book for a long time-- it looked like exactly what I wanted... a study on the pagan/wiccan religion in the US.
However, what I got was a dry, boring, tedious book that I couldn't even finish. It was like reading a textbook-- it had many citations from other works, and used language with which I was not familiar. (As a side note, I have completed college!) I wouldn't waste my money on this one, folks.
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Summary: not hutton.
Review: This book tries, and fails, to pick up where Hutton leaves off. Not a bad work, and certainly valuable and written in acessible langauge, but the scope of the investigation was too narrow to have much external validity.
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