Since the early 1990s, increasing numbers of occultists have come to identify as practitioners of "Traditional Witchcraft", "Traditional Craft", or "Old Craft". This article maps out this milieu, outlining the existence of both its modern Pagan and Luciferian components and in doing so demonstrating that the term lacks precision for etic scholarly purposes. It follows this by exploring what purpose this term actually serves, examining both its historical development and its contemporary usages to illustrate how it represents a form of rhetorical self-identification adopted by occultists seeking to retain the label of "Witchcraft" while evading associations with "Wicca" and at the same time functioning as a legitimation strategy by foregrounding the inheritance of "tradition". Since the early 1990s, increasing numbers of occultists have come to identify as practitioners of "Traditional Witchcraft", "Traditional Craft", or "Old Craft". This article maps out this milieu, outlining the existence of both its modern Pagan and Luciferian components and in doing so demonstrating that the term lacks precision for etic scholarly purposes. It follows this by exploring what purpose this term actually serves, examining both its historical development and its contemporary usages to illustrate how it represents a form of rhetorical self-identification adopted by occultists seeking to retain the label of "Witchcraft" while evading associations with "Wicca" and at the same time functioning as a legitimation strategy by foregrounding the inheritance of "tradition".
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2018
توصيف ظاهري
188-216
عنوان
Aries
شماره جلد
18/2
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
1570-0593
اصطلاحهای موضوعی کنترل نشده
اصطلاح موضوعی
folk magic
اصطلاح موضوعی
legitimacy
اصطلاح موضوعی
Luciferianism
اصطلاح موضوعی
occultism
اصطلاح موضوعی
Paganism
اصطلاح موضوعی
Traditional Witchcraft
اصطلاح موضوعی
Wicca
اصطلاح موضوعی
Witchcraft
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