Updated in December 2024.
Academic Monographs
Forthcoming. Imagining the Witches’ Sabbath: Visions of Darkness since 1900. Elements in Magic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Forthcoming. Pale Hecate’s Offerings: Witchcraft in British Film and Television. London: Strange Attractor.
2024. The New Witches of the West: Tradition, Liberation, and Power. Elements in New Religious Movements. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2016. Wicca: History, Belief, and Community in Modern Pagan Witchcraft. Brighton, Chicago, and Toronto: Sussex Academic Press.
Books for a General Readership
2023. Pagans: The Visual Culture of Pagan Myths, Legends, and Rituals. London and New York: Thames and Hudson.
[Amended for the second print run; also published in French, Spanish, Latvian, Korean, and Japanese language editions]
Academic Edited Volumes
With Jonathan Woolley.
2024. Modern Religious Druidry: Studies in Paganism, Celtic Identity, and Nature Spirituality. Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
With Shai Feraro. 2019. Magic
and Witchery in the Modern West: Celebrating the Twentieth Anniversary of
Ronald Hutton’s The Triumph of the Moon. Palgrave Historical Studies in
Witchcraft and Magic. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Peer-Reviewed Journal
Articles
Forthcoming. “Saxon Sabbaths and Norman Witchery: High Magic’s Aid, Wicca, and the Medievalism of Gerald Gardner.” The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies.
2023. “A New God for a New Paganism: The Green Man in the Modern Pagan Milieu.” Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 17, no. 2, pp. 201–227. DOI: 10.1558/jsrnc.20036.
2021. ““She Comes from a Cursed Lineage:” Portrayals of Witchcraft, Wicca, and Satanism in The X-Files.” Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review 12, no. 1, pp. 75–102. DOI:10.5840/asrr2021121678.
2020. “Saxon Kent versus
Roman London? Presenting Borderland Heritage at the Faesten Dic in Joyden’s
Wood, Kent.” Offa’s Dyke Journal 2, pp. 81–102.
2019. ““One Magical
Movement from Kether to Malkuth”: Occultism in the Work of David Bowie.” Correspondences:
Journal for the Study of Esotericism 7, no. 2, pp. 367–409.
2019. “Christianity,
Islam, and the UK Independence Party: Religion and British Identity in the
Discourse of Right-Wing Populists.” Journal of Church and State 61, no.
1. DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csy082.
2018. “Between the Devil
and the Old Gods: Exploring the Intersection between the Pagan and Satanic
Milieus.” Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review 9, no. 2, pp.
141–164. DOI: 10.5840/asrr201810950.
2018. “The Creation of
“Traditional Witchcraft”: Pagans, Luciferians, and the Quest for Esoteric
Legitimacy.” Aries: Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism 18, no.
2, pp. 188–216. DOI: 10.1163/15700593-01802002.
2017. “Archaeology,
Historicity, and Homosexuality in the New Cultus of Antinous: Perceptions of
the Past in a Contemporary Pagan Religion.” The International Journal for
the Study of New Religions 8, no. 2, pp. 237–259. DOI: 10.1558/ijsnr.37618.
2017. “Northern Gods for
Northern Folk: Racial Identity and Right-Wing Ideology among Britain’s Folkish
Heathens.” Journal of Religion in Europe 10, no. 3, pp. 241–273. DOI:
10.1163/18748929-01003001.
2016. “Theoretical,
Terminological, and Taxonomic Trouble in the Academic Study of Contemporary
Paganism: A Case for Reform.” The Pomegranate: The International Journal of
Pagan Studies 18, no. 1, pp. 31–59. DOI: 10.1558/pome.v18i1.28457.
2016. “Old Stones, New
Rites: Contemporary Pagan Interactions with the Medway Megaliths.” Material
Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief 12, no. 3, pp. 346–372.
DOI: 10.1080/17432200.2016.1192152.
2016. “The New Cultus of
Antinous: Hadrian’s Deified Lover and Contemporary Queer Paganism.” Nova
Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 20, no. 1, pp.
32–59. DOI: 10.1525/novo.2016.20.1.32.
2016. “Lucifer Over
Luxor: Archaeology, Egyptology, and Occultism in Kenneth Anger’s Magick Lantern
Cycle.” Present Pasts 7, no. 1, pp. 1–10. DOI: dx.doi.org/10.5334/pp.73.
2015. ““An’ it Harm None,
Do What Ye Will”: A Historical Analysis of the Wiccan Rede.” Magic, Ritual,
and Witchcraft 10, no. 2, pp. 142–71. DOI: 10.1353/mrw.2015.0032.
2014. “The Goddess Frig:
Reassessing an Anglo-Saxon Deity.” Preternature: Critical and Historical
Studies on the Preternatural 3, no. 2, pp. 284–310. DOI:
10.5325/preternature.3.2.0284.
2014. “Devil’s Stones and
Midnight Rites: Megaliths, Folklore, and Contemporary Pagan Witchcraft.” Folklore
125, no. 1, pp. 60–79. DOI: 10.1080/0015587X.2013.860766.
2013. “An Elusive
Roebuck: Luciferianism and Paganism in Robert Cochrane’s Witchcraft.” Correspondences:
An Online Journal for the Academic Study of Western Esotericism 1, no. 1,
pp. 75–101.
2012. “In Defense of
Pagan Studies: A Response to Davidsen’s Critique.” The Pomegranate: The
International Journal of Pagan Studies 14, no. 1, pp. 5–21. DOI: 10.1558/pome.v14i1.5.
2011. “Robert Cochrane
and the Gardnerian Craft: Feuds, Secrets, and Mysteries in Contemporary British
Witchcraft.” The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies
13, no. 2, pp. 205–24. DOI: 10.1558/pome.v13i2.205.
2010. “The Meaning of
“Wicca”: A Study in Etymology, History and Pagan Politics.” The Pomegranate:
The International Journal of Pagan Studies 12, no. 2, pp. 185–207. DOI:
10.1558/pome.v12i2.185.
Chapters in Edited
Volumes
Forthcoming. ““In the Halls of Valhalla, Where the Brave May Live Forever”: Depictions of Pre-Christian Religion in Cinematic Adaptations of Beowulf.” In Handbook of Contemporary Religion, Film and Television, edited by Carole Cusack and Venetia Robertson. Leiden: Brill.
Forthcoming. “My People Call it the Dweller on the Threshold: Theosophy, Esotericism, and Occultism in the World of Twin Peaks.” In The Twin Peaks Phenomenon: Essays on a Show Both Wonderful and Strange, edited by Jenny Butler. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland.
Forthcoming. “Considering
Chumbley in Context.” In Essays in Honor of Andrew D. Chumbley, edited
by Daniel A. Schulke. Richmond Vista: Three Hands Press.
2024. “The Cottingley Case in Modern Esoteric Fairy Literature.” In The Cottingley Fairy Photographs: New Approaches to Fairies, Fakes and Folklore, edited by Simon Young. N.p.: Pwca Books. 196–211.
2024. “Cutting the Mistletoe: An Introduction to Modern Religious Druidry.” In Modern Religious Druidry: Studies in Paganism, Celtic Identity, and Nature Spirituality, edited by Ethan Doyle White and Jonathan Woolley. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 1–27.
2023. “Bedecked in Ribbons and Bows: Dressed Trees as Markers of Heritage, Hope, and Faith in the Landscapes of Southern England.” In Folklore, People and Place: International Perspectives on Tourism and Tradition in Storied Places, edited by Rachael Ironside and Jack Hunter. London and New York: Routledge. 40–54.
2021. “Drawing Down the Moon: From Classical Greece to Modern Wicca?” In Fictional Practice: Magic, Narration, and the Power of Imagination, edited by Bernd-Christian Otto and Dirk Johannsen. Leiden and Boston: Brill. 222–243.
2021. “In Woden’s Shadow: Anglo-Saxonism, Paganism, and Politics in Modern England.” Studies in Medievalism XXX: Politics and Medievalism (Studies) II, edited by Karl Fugelso. Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer. 129–156.
With Shai Feraro. 2019.
“Twenty Years On: An Introduction.” In Magic and Witchery in the Modern
West: Celebrating the Twentieth Anniversary of Ronald Hutton’s The Triumph of
the Moon, edited by Shai Feraro and Ethan Doyle White. London: Palgrave
Macmillan. 1–19.
2019. “Navigating the
Crooked Path: Andrew D. Chumbley and the Sabbatic Craft.” In Magic and
Witchery in the Modern West: Celebrating the Twentieth Anniversary of Ronald
Hutton’s The Triumph of the Moon, edited by Shai Feraro and Ethan Doyle
White. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 197–222.
2019. “Archaeology,
Historicity, and Homosexuality in the New Cultus of Antinous: Perceptions of
the Past in a Contemporary Pagan Religion.” In New Antiquities:
Transformations of the Past in the New Age and Beyond, edited by Dylan Burns
and Almut Barbara-Renger. Sheffield: Equinox. 127–148.
2018. “Around the
Witches’ Circle: Exploring the Relationship between Wicca and Archaeological
Sites.” In Archaeological Sites as Space for Modern Spiritual Practice,
edited by Jutta Leskovar. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
184–196.
2016. “Casting New Light
on Wicca? The Role of Lucifer in Contemporary Pagan Witchcraft.” In The
Luminous Stone: Lucifer in Western Esotericism, edited by Michael Howard
and Daniel Schulke. Richmond Vista: Three Hands Press. 81–105.
Review Articles
2024. “Four Books on Modern Paganism.” Reading Religion. https://readingreligion.org/blog/four-books-on-modern-paganism/.
2017. “Sympathy for the
Devil: A Review of Recent Publications in the Study of Satanism.” Correspondences:
An Online Journal for the Academic Study of Western Esotericism 5, pp.
95–112. Available open access.
2014. “Britain’s Pagan
Heritage: A Review of Ronald Hutton’s Pagan Britain and Marion Gibson’s Imagining
the Pagan Past.” Journal of Religion & Society 16, pp. 1–16.
Encyclopaedia and Other
Entries
Forthcoming. “Paganism (contemporary),” “Wicca,” “Traditional Witchcraft,” “Pagan Federation,” “Doreen Valiente,” “Robert Cochrane,” “Alex and Maxine Sanders,” “Stewart and Janet Farrar.” In Brill Dictionary of Contemporary Esotericism, edited by Egil Asprem. Leiden: Brill.
Forthcoming. “Is Paganism a NRM?” In New Religious Movements in Five Minutes, edited by Lukas K. Pokorny and Franz Winter. Sheffield: Equinox.
Forthcoming. “Wicca and the Web.” In Media, Religion and Culture: An Introduction, second edition, by Jeffrey Mahan. Routledge.
Forthcoming. “Druid,” “Druidry,” “Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn,” “Thelema,” “Hoodoo,” “Witch trials in early modern Europe,” Encyclopaedia Britannica.
2024. “Is Paganism a Nature Religion?,” “Do Pagans Have Sacred Sites?,” “Are Satanism and Paganism the Same?,” “Do Pagans Have Particular Political Views?” In Pagan Religions in Five Minutes, edited by Suzanne Owen and Angela Puca. Sheffield: Equinox. 30–32, 37–39, 160–62, 181–83.
2024. “Witchcraft.” Encyclopaedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/topic/witchcraft
2024. “Occultism.” Encyclopaedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/topic/occultism.
2024. “Occult.” Encyclopaedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/topic/occult.
2024. “Esotericism.” Encyclopaedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/topic/esotericism.
2023. “Modern Paganism.” Encyclopaedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/topic/modern-Paganism.
2023. “Satanism.” Encyclopaedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Satanism.
2023. “Heathenry.” Encyclopaedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Heathenry.
2023. “Paganism.” Encyclopaedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/topic/paganism.
2022. “Wicca.” Encyclopaedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Wicca.
2022. “Doreen Virtue.” World Religions and Spirituality Project. https://wrldrels.org/2022/07/22/doreen-virtue/.
2021. “Janet Farrar.” World
Religions and Spirituality Project. https://wrldrels.org/2021/03/16/janet-farrar/.
2020. “Wicca as
Witchcraft.” In The Witchcraft Reader,
third edition, edited by Darren Oldridge. Abingdon: Routledge. [A revised version
of a chapter in my 2016 book, Wicca.]
2018. “The Minoan
Brotherhood.” World Religions and
Spirituality Project. https://wrldrels.org/2018/10/01/minoan-brotherhood/.
2018. “The New Cultus of
Antinous.” World Religions and
Spirituality Project. https://wrldrels.org/2018/06/19/the-new-cultus-of-antinous/.
2017. “Why is the Past
Such an Important Resource for Wiccans?” World
Religions: Belief, Culture, and Controversy. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio.
Exhibition Reviews
2019. Review of “Spellbound:
Magic, Ritual and Witchcraft,” Ashmolean Museum. Material Religion: The
Journal of Objects, Art and Belief 15, no. 5, pp. 647–650.
2018. Review of “Harry
Potter: History of Magic,” British Library. Material Religion: The Journal
of Objects, Art and Belief 14, no. 2, pp. 282–284.
2012. Review of Sara
Hannant, “Mummers, Maypoles and Milkmaids: A Journey Through the English Ritual
Year,” Horniman Museum. The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies
14, no. 2, pp. 304–08.
Book Reviews
Forthcoming. Review of Giovanna Parmigiani, The Spider Dance: Tradition, Time, and Healing in Southern Italy (Equinox, 2024). Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions.
Forthcoming. Review of Andrew Paul Wood, Shadow Worlds: A History of the Occult and Esoteric in New Zealand (Massey University Press, 2023). Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions.
Forthcoming. Review of Jeremy Harte, Fairy Encounters in Medieval England: Landscape, Folklore and the Supernatural (Exeter University Press, 2024). Folklore.
Forthcoming. Review of Trude Fonneland and Tiina Äikäs, Shamanic Materialities in Nordic Climates (Cambridge University Press, 2023) and Angela Puca, Italian Witchcraft and Shamanism: The Tradition of Segnature, Indigenous and Trans-Cultural Shamanic Traditions in Italy (Brill, 2024). Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions.
2024. Review of Simon Young and Davide Ermacora, eds. The Exeter Companion to Fairies, Nereids, Trolls and Other Social Supernatural Beings: European Traditions (Exeter University Press, 2024). Reading Religion. https://readingreligion.org/9781804131046/the-exeter-companion-to-fairies-nereids-trolls-and-other-social-supernatural-beings/.
2024. Review of Samim Akgönül and Anne-Laure Zwilling, eds., Druidism, Tengrism, Taaraism: Current Reactivations of Ancient Spiritualities and Religions, from Identity to Politics (Transnational Press, 2024). Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 28, no. 2, pp. 163–64.
2024. Review of Kimberly Kirner, American Druidry: Crafting the Wild Soul (Bloomsbury, 2024). Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 28, no. 2, pp. 149–50.
2024. Review of Louis Bayman and K. J. Donnelly, eds., Folk Horror on Film: Return of the British Repressed (Manchester University Press, 2023). Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 28, no. 1, pp. 126–27.
2024. Review of Jeremy Harte, Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape (Reaktion Books, 2022). Folklore 135, no. 1, pp. 139–40.
2024. Review of Miranda Corcoran, Teen Witches: Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture (University of Wales Press, 2022). Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 27, no. 3, pp. 111–12.
2023. Review of Owen Davies and Ceri Houlbrook, Building Magic: Ritual and Re-enchantment in Post-Medieval Structures (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). Folklore 134, no. 4, pp. 596–98.
2023. Review of Stan Beckensall, Rituals of Death: From Prehistoric Times to Now (Pen and Sword, 2022). Worcestershire Recorder: Newsletter of the Worcestershire Archaeological Society 108, p. 21.
2023. Review of Elizabeth Foley O’Connor, Pamela Colman Smith: Artist, Feminist, and Mystic (Clemson University Press, 2021). Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 27, no. 1, pp. 143–44. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/263/article/905135.
2023. Review of Sarah A. Hughes, American Tabloid Media and the Satanic Panic, 1970–2000 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 26, no. 4, pp. 122–23. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/896631.
2022. Review of Simon Young, The Boggart: Folklore, History, Place-Names and Dialect (Exeter University Press, 2022). Reading Religion. https://readingreligion.org/9781905816903/the-boggart/.
2022. Review of Alicia Puglionesi, Common Phantoms: An American History of Psychic Science (Stanford University Press, 2020). Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 26, no. 2, pp. 125–26. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/263/article/869575.
2022. Review of Carolyn Twomey and Daniel Anlezark, eds., Meanings of Water in Early Medieval England (Brepols, 2021). Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture 15, no. 2, p. 267.
2022. Review of Holli S. Emore, Constellated Ministry: A Guide for Those Serving Today’s Pagans (Equinox, 2021). Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 25, no. 4, pp. 136–37. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/856024.
2022. Review of Larisa A. White, World Druidry: A Globalizing Path of Nature Spirituality (Privately published, 2021). Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 25, no. 3, pp. 132–33. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/847374.
2021. Review of David J. Halperin, Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO (Stanford University Press, 2020). Reading Religion. https://readingreligion.org/books/intimate-alien.
2021. Review of Will Rathouse, Contested Heritage: Relations between Contemporary Pagan Groups and the Archaeological and Heritage Professions in Britain in the Early 21st Century (BAR Publishing, 2021). Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 25, no. 2, pp. 115–16. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/835843.
2021. Review of Marie-Therese Mäder, Alberto Saviello, and Baldassare Scolari, eds. Highgate Cemetery: Image Practices in Past and Present (Nomos, 2020). Reading Religion. https://readingreligion.org/books/highgate-cemetery.
2021. Review of
Christopher Abram, Evergreen Ash: Ecology and Catastrophe in Old Norse Myth
and Literature (University of Virginia Press, 2019). Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture 14, no. 3, pp. 477
2021. Review of
Steve Bruce, British Gods: Religion in Modern Britain (Oxford University
Press, 2020). Nova Religio: The Journal
of Alternative and Emergent Religions 25, no. 1, pp. 125
2021. Review of
Liz Williams, Miracles of Our Own Making: A History of Paganism
(Reaktion, 2020). Nova Religio: The
Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 24, no. 3, pp. 157
2020. Review of Manon
Hedenborg White, The Eloquent Blood: The Goddess Babalon and the
Construction of Femininities in Western Esotericism (Oxford University
Press, 2020). Nova Religio: The Journal
of Alternative and Emergent Religions 24, no. 2, pp. 139–40. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/772861.
2020. Review of Margaret
Clunies Ross, ed. The Pre-Christian Religions of the North: Research and
Reception, two volumes (Brepols, 2018). Reading Religion. http://readingreligion.org/books/pre-christian-religions-north.
2020. Review of Heather
Greene, Bell, Book and Camera: A Critical
History of Witches in American Film and Television (McFarland & Co,
2018). Nova Religio: The Journal of
Alternative and Emergent Religions 24, no. 1, pp. 113–14. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/766243.
2020. Review of Helen
Berger, Solitary Pagans: Contemporary
Witches, Wiccans, and Others Who Practice Alone (University of South
Carolina Press, 2019). Nova Religio: The
Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 23, no. 4, pp. 146–47. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/755972.
2020. Review of Darryl
Caterine and John W. Morehead, The
Paranormal and Popular Culture: A Postmodern Religious Landscape
(Routledge, 2019). Reading Religion. http://readingreligion.org/books/paranormal-and-popular-culture.
2019. Review of Nancy
Edwards, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, and Roy Flechner, eds. Transforming Landscapes of Belief in the Early Medieval Insular World
and Beyond: Converting the Isles II (Brepols, 2017). Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture
12, no. 4, pp. 349-50.
2019. Review of Jefferson
F. Calico, Being Viking: Heathenism in Contemporary
America (Equinox, 2018). Nova
Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 23, no. 2, pp.
129–30. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/744434.
2019. Review of Brian
Hoggard, Magical House Protection: The
Archaeology of Counter-Witchcraft (Berghahn, 2019). Reading Religion. http://readingreligion.org/books/magicalhouse-protection.
2019. Review of Serinity
Young, Women Who Fly: Goddesses, Witches,
Mystics, and Other Airborne Females (Oxford University Press, 2018). Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology,
Consciousness and Culture 12, no. 3, pp. 254-55.
2019. Review of Ciaran
Arthur, ‘Charms’, Liturgies, and Secret
Rites in Early Medieval England (Boydell, 2018). Reading Religion. http://readingreligion.org/books/charms-liturgies-andsecret-rites-early-modern-england.
2019. Review of Paul
Harrison, Profane Egyptologists: The
Modern Revival of Ancient Egyptian Religion (Routledge, 2018). Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and
Emergent Religions 22, no, 4, pp. 133–135. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737649.
2019. Review of Christine
Ferguson and Andrew Radford, eds. The
Occult Imagination in Britain, 1875–1947 (Routledge, 2018). Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and
Emergent Religions 22, no. 3, pp. 161–162. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737619.
2019. Review of Michael
York, Pagan Ethics: Paganism as a World
Religion (Springer, 2016). Nova
Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 22, no. 3, pp.
133–135. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737604.
2019. Review of Michael
Ostling, ed. Fairies, Demons, and Nature
Spirits: ‘Small Gods’ at the Margins of Christendom (Palgrave Macmillan,
2018). Reading Religion. http://readingreligion.org/books/fairies-demons-and-nature-spirits.
2018. Review of Vasiliki
G. Koutrafouri and Jeff Sanders, eds. Ritual
Failure: Archaeological Perspectives (Sidestone Press, 2013). Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology,
Consciousness and Culture 11, no. 4, pp.
441–442.
2018. Review of Ben
Quash, Aaron Rosen, and Chloë Reddaway, eds., Visualising a Sacred City: London, Art and Religion (I.B. Tauris,
2017). Time and Mind: The Journal of
Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture 11, no. 4, pp. 436–437.
2018. Review of Anne
Kalvig, The Rise of Contemporary
Spiritualism: Concept and Controversies in Talking to the Dead (Routledge,
2017). Reading Religion. http://readingreligion.org/books/rise-contemporary-spiritualism.
2018. Review of Adam
Anczyk and Joanna Malita-Król, eds. Walking
the Old Ways in a New World: Contemporary Paganism as Lived Religion
(Sacrum, 2017). Nova Religio: The Journal
of Alternative and Emergent Religions 22, no. 1, pp. 138–39. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737568.
2018. Review of Kathryn
Rountree, ed. Cosmopolitanism,
Nationalism, and Modern Paganism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and
Emergent Religions 22, no. 1, pp. 135–36. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737566.
2018. Review of Erika
Gasser, Vexed with Devils: Manhood and
Witchcraft in Old and New England (New York: New York University Press,
2017). Reading Religion. http://readingreligion.org/books/vexed-devils.
2018. Review of J.
Jeffrey Franklin, Spirit Matters: Occult
Beliefs, Alternative Religions, and the Crisis of Faith in Victorian Britain
(Cornell University Press, 2018). Reading
Religion. http://readingreligion.org/books/spirit-matters.
2018. Review of Sondra L.
Hausner, The Spirits of Crossbones
Graveyard: Time, Ritual, and Sexual Commerce in London (Indiana University
Press, 2016). Reading Religion. http://readingreligion.org/books/spirits-crossbones-graveyard.
2018. Review of Michael
D. Bailey, Magic: The Basics
(Routledge, 2018). Reading Religion. http://readingreligion.org/books/magic.
2018. Review of Siv Ellen
Kraft, Trude Fonneland, and James R. Lewis, eds. Nordic Neoshamanisms (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). Reading Religion. http://readingreligion.org/books/nordic-neoshamanism.
2017. Review of Howard
Williams, Joanne Kirton, and Meggan Gondek, eds. Early Medieval Stone Monuments: Materiality, Biography, Landscape
(Woodbridge: Boydell, 2015). Time and
Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture, 10, no. 4, pp.
381–382.
2017. Review of Stefanie
von Schnurbein, Norse Revival:
Transformations of Germanic Neopaganism (Brill, 2016). Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 21,
no. 1, pp. 109–110.
2017. Review of
Christopher D. Bader, Joseph O. Baker, and F. Carson Mencken, Paranormal America: Ghost Encounters, UFO
Sightings, Bigfoot Hunts, and Other Curiosities in Religion and Culture,
second ed. (New York University Press, 2017). Reading Religion. http://readingreligion.org/books/paranormal-america.
2017. Review of Brian J.
McVeigh, How Religion Evolved: Explaining
the Living Dead, Talking Idols, and Mesmerizing Monuments (Transaction
Publishers, 2016). Time and Mind: The
Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture 10, no. 3, pp. 325–326.
2017. Review of Kaarina
Aitamurto, Paganism, Traditionalism,
Nationalism: Narratives of Russian Rodnoverie (Routledge, 2016). Reading Religion, http://readingreligion.org/books/paganism-traditionalism-nationalism.
2016. Review of Jean La
Fontaine, Witches and Demons: A
Comparative Perspective on Witchcraft and Satanism (Berghahn, 2016). The Pomegranate: The International Journal
of Pagan Studies 18, no. 2, pp. 245–247. https://journal.equinoxpub.com/POM/article/view/3016.
2016. Review of Mika T.
Lassander, Post-Materialist Religion:
Pagan Identities and Value Change in Modern Europe (Bloomsbury, 2014). Religious Studies Review 42, no. 3, p.
189.
2016. Review of Kathryn
Rountree, ed. Contemporary Pagan and
Native Faith Movements in Europe: Colonialist and Nationalist Impulses
(Berghahn, 2015). Nova Religio: The
Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 20, no. 2, pp. 142–143;
(accidentally) reprinted in 21, no. 3, pp. 134–136.
2016. Review of Michael
D. J. Bintley and Thomas T. J. Williams, eds. Representing Beasts in Early Medieval England and Scandinavia
(Boydell, 2015). Time and Mind: The
Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture 9, no. 3, pp. 285–286.
2016. Review of Philip
Heselton, Doreen Valiente: Witch (The
Doreen Valiente Foundation, 2016). The
Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies 18, no. 1, pp. 108–
111.
2016. Review of Ceri
Houlbrook and Natalie Armitage, eds., The
Materiality of Magic: An Artefactual Investigation into Ritual Practices and
Popular Beliefs (Oxbow, 2015). Time
and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture. 9, no. 1,
pp. 75–76.
2016. Review of Kathleen
Sheppard, The Life of Mary Alice Murray:
A Woman’s Work in Archaeology (Lexington, 2013). Aries: Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism 16, no. 1, pp.
154–56.
2015. Review of Murphy
Pizza, Paganistan: Contemporary Pagan
Community in Minnesota’s Twin Cities (Ashgate, 2014). Folklore 126, no. 3, pp. 368–369.
2015. Review of Henrik
Bogdan and James R. Lewis, eds., Sexuality
and New Religious Movements (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and
Emergent Religions 19, no. 2, pp. 124–25.
2015. Review of Anders
Andrén, Tracing Old Norse Cosmology: The
World Tree, Middle Earth, and the Sun in Archaeological Perspectives (Nordic
Academic Press, 2014). Time and Mind: The
Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture 8, no. 2, pp.
219–20.
2015. Review of Douglas
Ezzy, Sex, Death and Witchcraft: A
Contemporary Pagan Festival (Bloomsbury, 2014). Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 18,
no. 4, pp. 108–10.
2015. Review of Mariya
Lesiv, The Return of Ancestral Gods:
Modern Ukrainian Paganism as an Alternative Vision for a Nation (McGill-Queen’s
University Press, 2013). Alternative
Spirituality and Religion Review 5, no. 2, pp. 299–302.
2015. Review of Henrik
Bogdan and Gordan Djurdjevic, eds. Occultism
in a Global Perspective (Acumen, 2013). Nova
Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 18, no. 3, pp.
111–12.
2014. Review of Per
Faxneld and Jesper Aa. Petersen, eds. The
Devil’s Party: Satanism in Modernity (Oxford University Press, 2012). Correspondences: An Online Journal for the
Academic Study of Western Esotericism 2, no. 2, pp. 215–37.
2014. Review of Bron
Taylor, ed. Avatar and Nature
Spirituality (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013). Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 18,
no. 2, pp. 119–20.
2014. Review of Michael
D. J. Bintley and Michael G. Shapland, eds. Trees
and Timber in the Anglo-Saxon World (Oxford University Press, 2013). Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology,
Consciousness and Culture 7, no. 3, pp. 323–24.
2014. Review of Marco
Pasi, Aleister Crowley and the Temptation
of Politics (Acumen, 2014). Alternative
Spirituality and Religion Review 5, no. 1, pp. 178–81.
2014. Review of Peter
Levenda, The Dark Lord: H. P. Lovecraft,
Kenneth Grant and the Typhonian Tradition in Magic (Ibis, 2013). Beyond Borderlands: A Critical Journal of
the Weird, Paranormal and Occult 1, pp. 5–6.
2014. Review of Nevill
Drury, ed. Pathways in Modern Western
Magic (Concrescent Scholars Press, 2012). Correspondences: An Online Journal for the Academic Study of Western
Esotericism 2, no. 1, pp. 115–18.
2014. Review of Sarah
Semple, Perceptions of the Prehistoric in
Anglo-Saxon England: Religion, Ritual and Rulership in the Landscape (Oxford
University Press, 2013). Papers from the
Institute of Archaeology 24, no. 1, pp.1–3.
2014. Review of Brian A.
Smith and Alan A. Walker, Rock Art and
Ritual: Mindscapes of Prehistory (Amberley, 2011). Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture 7,
no. 1, pp. 98–101.
2013. Review of Tobias
Churton, Aleister Crowley: The Biography (Watkins,
2012) and Henrik Bogdan and Martin P. Starr, eds. Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism (Oxford University Press,
2012). The Pomegranate: The International
Journal of Pagan Studies 15, no. 1–2, pp. 305–12.
2013. Review of Donna
Weston and Andy Bennett, eds. Pop Pagans:
Paganism and Popular Music (Acumen, 2013). The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies 15, no.
1–2, pp. 285–88.
2013. Review of Kaarina
Aitamurto and Scott Simpson, eds. Modern
Pagan and Native Faith Movements in Central and Eastern Europe (Acumen,
2013). Alternative Spirituality and
Religion Review 4, no. 2, pp. 282–86.
2013. Review of Kathryn
Rountree, eds. Archaeology of
Spiritualities (Springer, 2012). Papers
from the Institute of Archaeology 23, no. 1, pp. 1–4.
2012. Review of Michael
G. Lloyd, Bull of Heaven: The Mythic Life
of Eddie Buczynski and the Rise of the New York Pagan (Asphodel Press,
2012). The Pomegranate: The International
Journal of Pagan Studies 14, no. 1, pp. 161–64.
2012. Review of Philip
Heselton, Witchfather: A Life of Gerald
Gardner (Thoth, 2012). The Pomegranate:
The International Journal of Pagan Studies 14, no. 1, pp. 171–74.
2011. Review of John of
Monmouth with Gillian Spraggs and Shani Oates, Genuine Witchcraft is Explained: The Secret History of the Royal
Windsor Coven and the Regency (Capall Bann, 2012). The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies 13, no.
2, pp. 280–82.
2011. Review of Michael
Howard, Children of Cain: A Study of
Modern Traditional Witches (Three Hands Press, 2011). The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies 13, no.
2, pp. 274–76.
2011. Review of Kerrian Godwin, ed. The Museum of Witchcraft: A Magical History (The Occult Art Company, 2011). The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies 13, no. 1, pp. 106–08
Podcast Appearances, Online Talks, and Interviews
2024. “Satan Shoes: The Devil and American Moral Panics.” Magic in the United States [podcast], https://www.magicintheunitedstates.com/s2e6.
2024. “7 Questions with Ethan Doyle White.” Sacred Matters Magazine [interview], https://sacredmattersmagazine.com/7-questions-with-ethan-doyle-white/.
2023. “A Short History of the Pagan.” Bureau of Lost Culture [podcast], https://bureauoflostculture.podbean.com/e/a-short-history-of-the-pagan/.
2023. “Old-New Religion: Roots and Branches of Modern Paganism by Ethan Doyle White.” Watkins Books [talk], YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW_CZCvwBj8.
2023. “Pagans: The Visual Culture of Pagan Myths, Legends and Rituals - Ethan Doyle White.” York Festival of Ideas [talk], YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K248syntTgk&t=1237s.
2016. “A Critical Introduction to the History, Beliefs, and Practices of Wiccans.” The Religious Studies Project [podcast], https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/a-critical-introduction-to-the-history-beliefs-and-practices-of-wiccans/.
2015. “Wicca: History, Belief, and Community.” Dowsing for Divinity [interview], https://dowsingfordivinity.com/2015/09/01/wicca-history-belief-and-community/.
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