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Title |
Title of document |
L’Imperatrice / The Empress - The Spider Dance |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Giovanna Parmigiani; Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University; United States |
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Subject |
Discipline(s) |
Religious Studies; Anthropology |
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Subject |
Keyword(s) |
Sisters of the cerchio; Neopaganism; magic; Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah; Susan Greenwood; Ernesto de Martino; expanded present; magical thinking |
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Subject |
Subject classification |
Paganism; New Religious Movements |
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Description |
Abstract |
This chapter address in detail spiritual practices by describing the ethnographic experience during the author's stay with the Sisters of the cerchio. These practices put synchronically in dialogue different dimensions of time and aim at changing the past through a specific engagement with the present. In doing so, these practices are a good way for enquiring some of the consequences of using the “historicity filter” in the study of Neopaganism and of magic, more generally. The author argues, in conversation with the work of scholars such as social anthropologist Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah (1990), anthropologist of magic Susan Greenwood, and ethnologist Ernesto de Martino, that an understanding of temporality as an “expanded present” may redefine both some of the attributes traditionally associated with “magical thinking” (such as that of cause/effect) and the categories used in order to make sense of Neopagan practices. |
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Publisher |
Organizing agency, location |
Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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Date |
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15-Aug-2024 |
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Type |
Status & genre |
Peer-reviewed Article |
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Format |
File format |
PDF |
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Identifier |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/40114 |
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Identifier |
Digital Object Identifier |
10.1558/equinox.40114 |
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Source |
Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) |
Equinox eBooks Publishing; The Spider Dance |
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Language |
English=en |
en |
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Coverage |
Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) |
Italy |
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Rights |
Copyright and permissions |
Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |