Witches of America
by Alex Mar
2020-05-13 12:30:58
Witches of America is a memoir of Alex Mar''s immersive five-year trip into the occult, as both a journalist and someone searching for her own faith. She explores modern Paganism-from its roots in 1950s England to its present-day American mecca in th...
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Witches of America is a memoir of Alex Mar''s immersive five-year trip into the occult, as both a journalist and someone searching for her own faith. She explores modern Paganism-from its roots in 1950s England to its present-day American mecca in the San Francisco Bay Area; from a gathering of more than a thousand witches in the Illinois woods to the New Orleans branch of one of the world''s most influential magical societies-and decides to train in a coven herself. With keen intelligence and wit, Mar illuminates the world of witchcraft while grappling in fresh and unexpected ways with the question underlying every faith: Why do we choose to believe in anything at all? Whether evangelical Christian, Pagan priestess, or atheist, each of us craves a system of meaning to give structure to our lives. Sometimes we just find it in unexpected places.
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