Presents a range of new and innovative studies on Wicca and related forms of modern occult and Pagan witchcraft

Builds upon the pioneering work of Professor Ronald Hutton on modern Western beliefs regarding magic and witchcraft

Examines Paganism and occultism from a range of perspectives including historical, anthropological, and psychological ones

1. Twenty Years On: An Introduction; Ethan Doyle White and Shai Feraro.- 2. The Goddess and the Great Rite: Hindu Tantra and the Complex Origins of Modern Wicca; Hugh B. Urban.- 3. Playing the Pipes of PAN: Pagans Against Nukes and the Linking of Wiccan-Derived Paganism with Ecofeminism in Britain, 1980-1990; Shai Feraro.- 4. Other Sides of the Moon: Assembling Histories of Witchcraft; Helen Cornish.- 5. The Nearest Kin of the Moon: Irish Pagan Witchcraft, Magic(k), and the Celtic Twilight; Jenny Butler.- 6. The Taming of the Fae: Literary and Folkloric Fairies in Modern Paganisms; Sabina Magliocco.- 7. "Wild Nature" and the Lure of the Past: The Legacy of Romanticism among Young Pagan Environmentalists; Sarah M. Pike.- 8. The Blind Moondial Makers: Creativity and Renewal in Wicca; Léon A. van Gulik.- 9. "The Eyes of Goats and of Women:" Femininity and the Post-Thelemic Witchcraft of Jack Parsons and Kenneth Grant; Manon Hedenborg White.- 10. Navigating the Crooked Path: Andrew D. Chumbley and the Sabbatic Craft; Ethan Doyle White.- 11. Witches Still Fly - Or Do They? Traditional Witches, Wiccans, and Flying Ointment; Chas S. Clifton.- 12. Afterword; Ronald Hutton.