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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Wiccan"”.
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"Wicca=..." : Sosiaalisen identiteetin vaikutus wiccan määrittelyyn Suomiwicca-keskustelulistalla
Kysymys wiccan määrittelystä nousi ajankohtaiseksi vuosituhannen vaihteessa, kun joukko wiccoja päätti hakea uskonnolleen virallisen yhdyskunnan asemaa. Yritys ei onnistunut, sillä opetusministeriö piti wiccaa liian hajanaisena, eikä katsonut sen täyttävän laissa määriteltyjä uskonnon …
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Modern myth in performance: claiming identity through a reading of fantasy withcraft
In this dissertation, I create a Wiccan dramaturgical lens to analyze three key fantasy sites: The Wizard of Oz film and stage adaptations (especially the Broadway musical Wicked), The Chronicles of Narnia film and theatrical adaptations, and the Harry Potter films and paratheatrical adaptations. …
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By knot of one, the spell’s begun: Finding the Wiccan Path. An investigation of conversion practices within the Wicca community.
… involves a challenge to the analysis of Wiccans as to be found in much contemporary literature. Through the analysis of Adler’s (1979) “coming-home experience”, I suggest that it is possible to analyse neophytes as either converts or affiliates. The thesis argues that the two distinctive …
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An Ye Harm None
In this novel, Kestrel, a Wiccan woman whose mundane name is Karen, is searching for home and love after growing up in a rootless military family. She begins to find acceptance in Reno's pagan community and in local volunteer activities. Kes becomes friends with Becky, an evangelical Christian new …
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Songs On the Water: Stories
… and another kind one, a misunderstood young Wiccan, a grizzled alligator poacher, and a formidable ex-trucker-turned-bartender meet and mingle throughout this collection. Many of the stories use narrative experimentation--for example, broken, distracted structure in a story about teenagers …
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Defining Twin Cities Wicca: The Emergence of Wicca as a Polyaffiliated Pagan Movement
… influential authors and practitioners in the Wiccan and Pagan tradition. The history of Wicca from England to the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, the focus of this study, is outlined. Building on Murphy Pizza’s ethnographical research of Wicca in Paganistan (the Twin Cities), I …
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Building for a Nature-Oriented Spirituality : a gathering for the cross-quarters
… life and activities. The basic Pagan and Wiccan beliefs are an understanding and abstraction of Nature and the cycles of the seasons. Building a community for Pagans and Witches implies that appropriate attitudes can be found in understanding how the landscape behaves and using that …
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Classification of Arabic extremist web content through Arabic textual analysis
… results using more than six algorithms in the Wiccan program. The researcher got very good results that make the judgment on this methodology a resounding success.This thesis aims to put forward a comprehensive and detailed classification system to categorize different Arabic-speaking website …