I
just wanted to post a quick update to alert readers to my latest
publication, The New Witches of the West: Tradition, Liberation,
and Power. This short academic book is part of Cambridge
University Press’ Elements in New Religious Movements series,
edited by scholar Rebecca Moore, who kindly invited me to contribute.
The book discusses why practitioners of various different new
religions active in modern Western societies have embraced the witch
as a self-identity, drawing on examples including Wicca, ‘traditional
witchcraft’, LaVeyan Satanism, and African diasporic traditions
like Hoodoo. To my knowledge, this is the first monograph-length
academic study to really deal with these varied forms of modern
religious witchcraft in tandem.
The book is available as a
free download from the publisher’s website until 23rd February 2024
(here). Print copies, both in paperback and hardback, should also be
available soon.
