Media, Information and Technoculture 3210F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Modern Paganism, Big Umbrella, Gender Role
10 Feb 2020
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Many different views of the term has led to few people actually calling themselves occultists: dark arts, etc, neopaganism = umbrella term for groups that centre on worshipping nature, the earth- mother goddess, the seasons. No one person is in charge of the process, so modern witchcraft is not a unified set of beliefs. Every interpretation is subject to reinvention by others (page 35) It is the right for women to be powerful. In all of these representations, there is liminality this in between space: the legacy of the witch as a liminal figure exists in egyptian legends, hindu myths, For her, mortal is good and being w witch is bad. In any movie when there is a white witch and a dark witch, it is another representation of women being pinned against each other. Bewitched: ran for 8 seasons, was a smart sitcom.
