Neo-Pagan Sacred Art and Altars: Making Things Whole

From: Western Folklore | Date: July 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Neo-Pagan Sacred Art and Altars: Making Things Whole. By Sabina Magliocco. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001. Pp. xii + 76, preface, notes, bibliography, photographs. $40.00 cloth, $18.00 paper)

Sabina Magliocco's empathic narrative discloses the secretive and often misunderstood world of Neo-Paganism through a close look at its material culture-its shrines, masks, and body adornments. She shows ways in which practitioners and artists ascribe personal meanings to an array of mythological images, including animals, Mother Earth, and maiden goddesses, giving material form to their ...

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