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Jennifer Uzzell, a doctoral researcher at Durham University will discuss some key points on British Druidry:
00:00 British Druidry
00:45 What is Druidry and how does it manifest?
03:38 What are the most popular druidic groups in Britain?
06:31 Is Druidry the Indigenous shamanic religion of Britain?
09:12 How is Druidry portrayed and perceived?
16:44 Ancestry in Druidry
20:19 Druidic magick and what role does magic play in Druidry.
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REFERENCES
Hutton, R. (2009) Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain, New Haven, Yale University Press.
Owen, S. (2013) ‘Druidry and the Definition of Indigenous Religion,’ in J.L. Cox (ed.) Critical Reflections on Indigenous Religions (Farnham: Ashgate), pp. 81-92
Uzzell, J. (2018) ‘And Raise Me Up a Golden Barrow. Narratives of Ancestry and Continuity in Contemporary British Druidry and Beyond.’, Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religion (JBASR), vol. 20, pp. 67–82 [Online]. DOI: 10.18792/jbasr.v20i0.28.
Uzzell, J. S. (2018) ‘Gods, wights and ancestors: the varieties of pagan religious experience at ancient sacred sites.’, Journal for the study of religious experience., vol. 4, pp. 64–80.
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#strega #Italian #witchcraft
Angela Puca covers Italian Shamanism, Paganism, folk magick, witchcraft, vernacular healers, the use of Segnature in relation to Social Media.
Paper delivered at the annual conference of the British Association for the Study of Religions in September 2019 at Leeds Trinity University.
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REFERENCES:
Bartolucci, A. (2016) Le streghe buone. I simboli, i gesti, le parole. Come muta la medicina tradizionale nell’era di Internet, Reggio Emilia, Compagnia Editoriale Aliberti.
De Bernardi, M. (2015) ‘Segnare la guarigione: etnosemiotica di un atto magico : lettura semiotica della pratica delle “segnature” nella prospettiva tranculturale relativa alla zona degli Appennini della regione italiana dell’Emilia Romagna’, Phd thesis, Université Toulouse le Mirail - Toulouse II [Online]. Available at https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01326386/document.
De Martino, E. (2007) Il mondo magico: prolegomeni a una storia del magismo, Bollati Boringhieri.
Gredig, F. (2010) Finding New Cosmologies: Shamans in Contemporary Europe, Zürich, Lit Verlag.
Johnson, P. C. (1995) ‘Shamanism from Ecuador to Chicago: A Case Study in New Age Ritual Appropriation’, Religion, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 163–178.
Magliocco, S. (2012). Beyond Belief: Context, Rationality and Participatory Consciousness. Western Folklore. 71(1), pp.5–24.
Magliocco, S. (2009). Italian Cunning Craft: Some Preliminary Observations. Journal of the Academic Study of Magic. (5), pp.103–133.
Magliocco, S. (2004). Witchcraft, healing and vernacular magic in Italy In: W. de Blecourt and O. Davies, eds. Witchcraft Continued: Popular Magic in Modern Europe. Manchester, New York: Manchester University Press, pp.151–173.
Puca, A. (2018) ‘Scientism and Post-Truth. Two contradictory paradigms underlying contemporary shamanism?’, Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religion (JBASR), vol. 20, pp. 83–99 [Online]. DOI: 10.18792/jbasr.v20i0.30.
Turchi, D. (2017) Lo sciamanesimo in Sardegna, Newton Compton.
Wallis, R. J. (2003) Shamans/Neo-Shamans: Ecstasies, Alternative Archaeologies and Contemporary Pagans, 1 edition., London, New York, Routledge.
00:00 Introduction: Paper presentation to the BASR
00:53 Social media & Italian shamanism & folk magic
01:26 Methodology – Facebook group
05:38 Discourses emerging in the community
07:55 Core Shamanism & social media
09:49 Folk magic & social media
12:41 Changes to initiation to online rituals
14:18 The shared term of Segnature
16:00 Conclusion
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How was Magic perceived and conceptualized in the Italian Renaissance?
This video will be a brief overview of some philosophical concepts from the Renaissance that shaped the view of magic at the time.
We will briefly cover Hermetic Philosophy, Marsilio Ficino, Giordano Bruno and Tommaso Campanella.
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CITED WORKS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
Allen, M. J. B., Rees, V. and Davies, M. (2002) Marsilio Ficino: His Theology, His Philosophy, His Legacy, BRILL.
Broek, R. van den and Hanegraaff, W. J. (1998) Gnosis and Hermeticism from Antiquity to Modern Times, SUNY Press.
Bruno, R. (2010) Giordano Bruno: Cause, Principle and Unity: And Essays on Magic, Cambridge, UK ; New York, Cambridge University Press.
Campanella, T. (2019) Del senso delle cose e della magia, Ernst, G. (ed), Bari; Roma, Laterza.
Copenhaver, B. P. (1984) ‘Scholastic Philosophy and Renaissance Magic in the De vita of Marsilio Ficino’, Renaissance Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 523–554.
Dall’Igna, A. (2017) ‘Characters of Giordano Bruno’s Mysticism’, in Vassányi, M., Sepsi, E., and Daróczi, A. (eds), The Immediacy of Mystical Experience in the European Tradition, Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures, Cham, Springer International Publishing, pp. 143–155.
Headley, J. M. (2019) Tommaso Campanella and the Transformation of the World, Princeton University Press.
Mead, G. R. S. (2012) The Corpus Hermeticum (Annotated Edition), Jazzybee Verlag.
Rubini, R. (2014) The Other Renaissance: Italian Humanism between Hegel and Heidegger, University of Chicago Press.
Ruggiero, G. (2015) The Renaissance in Italy: A Social and Cultural History of the Rinascimento, Cambridge University Press.
Yates, F. A. (1999) Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition, Taylor & Francis.
Zambelli, P. (2007) White Magic, Black Magic in the European Renaissance, BRILL.
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Is there any relation between Magic and Religion?
We'll cover a few scholars from the 19th and 20th century who talked about the relation (or lack thereof) between the two.
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References:
Bar‐Tal, D. (1990), Causes and Consequences of Delegitimization: Models of Conflict and Ethnocentrism. Journal of Social Issues, 46: 65-81
Bremmer, J. N. (1999). The Birth of the Term 'Magic‘. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, Bd. 126, pp. 1-12.
Crawford H. T. (1899). Relation between Magic and Religion. Journal of the American Oriental Society, 20, pp. 327-331.
Frazer, S. J. G. (2003) The Golden Bough, Abridged Ed edition., Mineola, N.Y, Dover Publications Inc.
Lévi-Strauss, C. (2016) ‘The Sorcerer and His Magic’, in Brown, P. J. and Closser, S. (eds), Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology, Routledge, pp. 197–203.
Wax, M. & Wax, R. (1963). The Notion of Magic. Current Anthropology, 4 (5), pp. 495-518.
Wax, M. L. (1967) ‘Magic, Rationality, and Max Weber’, The Kansas Journal of Sociology, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 12–19.
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What is Western Esotericism? How can we understand the Occult in the contemporary world?
This video will cover the models of academic interpretation presented by 'Western Esotericism: A Guide for the Perplexed' by Wouter J. Hanegraaff.
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#dungeonsanddragons #dnd #criticalrole
What does science say about dungeons and dragons? is it dangerous for your mental health? Is D&D a religion or a cult?
Academic review and research studies on the Psychology and Religious elements in dungeons and dragons.
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Adams, A. 2013. Needs Met Through Role-Playing Games: A Fantasy Theme Analysis of Dungeons & Dragons. Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research. 12(1).
Blackmon, W.D. 1994. Dungeons and Dragons: The Use of a Fantasy Game in the Psychotherapeutic Treatment of a Young Adult. American Journal of Psychotherapy. 48(4), pp.624–632.
DeRenard, L.A. and Kline, L.M. 1990. Alienation and the Game Dungeons and Dragons. Psychological Reports. 66(3_suppl), pp.1219–1222.
Laycock, J.P. 2015. Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds. University of California Press.
Perlini-Pfister, F. 2012. Philosophers with Clubs: Negotiating Cosmology and Worldviews in Dungeons & Dragons In: P. Bornet and M. Burger, eds. Religions in Play: Games, Rituals, and Virtual Worlds. Zürich: Theologischer Verlag Zürich, pp.275–294.
Rameshkumar, R. and Bailey, P. 2020. Storytelling with Dialogue: A Critical Role Dungeons and Dragons Dataset In: Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics [Online]. Online: Association for Computational Linguistics, pp.5121–5134. [Accessed 31 January 2023]. Available from: https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.459.
Simón, A. 1987. Emotional stability pertaining to the game of Dungeons & Dragons. Psychology in the Schools. 24(4), pp.329–332.
0:00 Introduction: Dungeons and Dragons
01:04 D&D Beginning and early reaction
01:47 Is D&D dangerous?
04:15 The religious side of D&D
05:33 The Gods
07:47 The Alignment ethical system
10:27 Other Worlds
12:20 Mircea Eliade - theory of the sacred
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Marco Castagnetto, PhD candidate at the University of Turin (Italy), will discuss the Roman Reconstructivist Religion. We will touch on Julius Evola, Giuliano Kremmerz, Arturo Reghini, the UR Group and much more! Among other things, Marco will tackle the relationship with Fascism and the Political elements related to this movement.
00:00:00 Introduction: A livestream Symposium
00:00:27 Marco Castagnetto & Naples
00:02:45 Roman Reconstructivism beginning and key moments
00:10:29 Three periods and 3 doctrinal areas 19th – early 20th centuries
00:16:15 Second period up to 1974 & death of Julius Evola
00:17:51 The UR Group
00:22:23 The influence of Julius Evola
00:27:28 The importance of studying uncomfortable topics
00:30:28 “The Myth of Blood”
00:41:16 Villa Favorita
00:45:17 Esotericism in modern Italian politics
00:51:00 The third doctrine in the modern period
00:54:07 The influence of Giuliano Kremmerz
00:57:24 Roman reconstructionists today
01:00:58 The rituals of Pietas
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#wicca #templeofara #witchcraft
Dr Angela Puca interviews the author and Wiccan Priestess Phyllis Curott on Wicca, Shamanism and Magic.
What is Wicca, according to Phyllis Curott, and how has it evolved over the decades? Magic, environmentalism and feminism in the Wiccan religion and spirituality.
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#atheisticwitchcraft #atheisticpaganism #nontheisticwitch
Join my conversation with Sarah Lisbeth, a Religious Studies PhD student at Wilfrid Laurier University & the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.
We will discuss non-theistic approaches to Witchcraft and Paganism.
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