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Earthly Bodies, Magical Selves

Earthly Bodies,

Magical Selves

Contemporary Pagans

and the Search for Community

Sarah M. Pike

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

Berkeley

Los Angeles

London

University of California Press

Berkeley and Los Angeles, California

University of California Press, Ltd.

London, England

The Regents of the University of California

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Pike, Sarah M., 1959–

Earthly bodies, magical selves : contemporary

pagans and the search for community / Sarah M. Pike.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-520-22030-7 (cloth : alk. paper)—

ISBN 0-520-22086-2 (pbk. : alk paper)

1. Neopaganism—United States.

2. Neopaganism—Rituals. 3. Festivals—United

States. 4. United States—Religion—1945–

I. Title.

BL2525 .P55 2000

299—dc21

00–042616

Chapter 6 appeared in an earlier version as a chap-

ter in James R. Lewis, ed., Magical Religion and

Modern Witchcraft, State University of New York

Press, 1996. Reprinted by permission. All rights

reserved.

Manufactured in the United States of America

10 987654321

The paper used in this publication meets the mini-

mum requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992

(R 1997) ( Permanence of Paper ).

To my parents,

Lucy Grey Pike and Thomas Howell Pike III,

and to the memory of Ricky Lee Schill

Earthly Bodies Magical Selves - Contemporary Pagans and the Search for Community by Sarah M Pike (2001).pdf