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 Young British Women Turn To Witchcraft Author: Matt Cresswell. Source: Religious Intelligence News (UK) Title: YOUNG BRITISH WOMEN TURN TO WITCHCRAFT A study conducted at Bath Spa University suggests that young people are increasingly drawn to witchcraft, it was revealed this week. Conducted by Denise Cush, professor of religious studies at the university, the report showed there had been a notable rise in the number of young people identifying themselves as witches. Cush argues that witchcraft remained particularly attractive to women because of its strong feminist values. | |
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| She Taught Me Once. | Jun 6th. at 7:52:06 am EDT |
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Asuyete (Bristol, England) - Email Me This is a bit of a weird article, but I took a module in Contemporary Spiritualities taught by Denise Cush, and she's very pro-Pagan. She offered to sponsor the Pagan group to get university funding. Why it's immediately gone into rambling about the Church of England I have no idea. I'm not sure this author really knew what to do with the information. |
| Go Figure! | Jun 5th. at 11:29:44 pm EDT |
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Winddancer (Kalamazoo, Michigan) - Email Me Like most non-Pagan writers the author is only partially informed. Though Wiccans are eco-feminist not all Witches are Wiccan. The word feminist simply refers to being pro women. This does not mean anti-men or anti-male deity. There are many reasons young woman are attracted to Witchcraft in addition to having a "valuation of women." Young adults are finding ways to get control of their life and Witchcraft is all about personal responsibility. Young adults today have accurate information available to them and more of them have the freedom to choose their religion based on what they believe irregardless of family affiliation. |
| Good For Them! | Jun 5th. at 11:25:46 pm EDT |
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bigcat (peoria, Illinois) - Email Me Well, at least some of the programs are upbeat and positive and have women role models who are strong and self assured while still being women. That's more than the Church has ever been. |
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Draken (Bronx, New York) - Email Me - Web Funny, I've never seen any ads on TV by a Wiccan group offering to ship free copies of "To Ride a Silver Broomstick" to people's homes. I don't see full-page "will cast spells for health and wealth" ads in the paper. I don't see billboards that state "don't make me cause your whole race to become extinct. - Gaia" on them. So who's doing the advertising? In other words, people use ads to promote christian mythology because they know attendance at their Bizarro World cult meetings is dwindling. |
| GEE.... | Jun 5th. at 6:46:15 pm EDT |
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Lady Whitewolf (Schenectady, New York) - Email Me I wonder why? Love to all |
| Sorry, Accident | Jun 5th. at 6:13:00 pm EDT |
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Songwind (Gardner, Massachusetts) - Email Me Not sure how I managed to post that...must have accidentally hit something, sorry. What I meant to say was, while I'm not an expert on the situation in England, I do agree that the reporter needs a bit more of an education before he/she writes about it. Wolfheart, I haven't been practicing much longer than you, but as far as I know, only the Dianic tradition is feminist. I found the Church of England bit rather humorous...not sure why. |
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Songwind (Gardner, Massachusetts) - Email Me While I can't claim I know the situation |
| Interesting... | Jun 5th. at 3:18:24 pm EDT |
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Michael Wolfheart (Rapid City, South Dakota) - Email Me kind of funny how they manage to write an article about Witchcraft and still use stereotypes and even tag an ad for the Church of England on the end of it...in all honesty I don't think, other than the numbers, that the writer of the article had any clue what they were talking about other than today's social stereotype. Sure the craft may appear to be feminist considering that we include The Goddess along with The God but it isn't feministic because they are both respected and worshiped equally. Even in practice itself no gender is above the other. Though I may be wrong, I have only been studying the Craft for a year and a half and therefore have much more to learn. |
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