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'Witches of America' is a memoir of Alex Mar’s immersive five-year trip into the occult, as both a journalist and someone searching for her own faith.
She explores modern Paganism―from its roots in 1950s England to its present-day American mecca in the San Francisco Bay Area; from a gathering of more than a thousand witches in the Illinois woods to the New Orleans branch of one of the world’s most influential magical societies―and decides to train in a coven herself.
With keen intelligence and wit, Mar illuminates the world of witchcraft while grappling in fresh and unexpected ways with the question underlying every faith: Why do we choose to believe in anything at all? Whether evangelical Christian, Pagan priestess, or atheist, each of us craves a system of meaning to give structure to our lives. Sometimes we just find it in unexpected places.
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'Witches of America' is a memoir of Alex Mar’s immersive five-year trip into the occult, as both a journalist and someone searching for her own faith.
She explores modern Paganism―from its roots in 1950s England to its present-day American mecca in the San Francisco Bay Area; from a gathering of more than a thousand witches in the Illinois woods to the New Orleans branch of one of the world’s most influential magical societies―and decides to train in a coven herself.
With keen intelligence and wit, Mar illuminates the world of witchcraft while grappling in fresh and unexpected ways with the question underlying every faith: Why do we choose to believe in anything at all? Whether evangelical Christian, Pagan priestess, or atheist, each of us craves a system of meaning to give structure to our lives. Sometimes we just find it in unexpected places.
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Book Discussion - Alex Mar - Witches of America (2016)
Sharing this mostly for people in other countries who did not grow up in American occulture like I did. Evey pool has a deep end, and shallow end. And this is the very , very shallow end. When Mar's book came out got a lot of push-back from the various neopagan groups and similar "because...
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