American Heathens

American Heathens
Author :
Publisher : Temple University Press
Total Pages : 235
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781439910979
ISBN-13 : 1439910979
Rating : 4/5 (979 Downloads)

Book Synopsis American Heathens by : Jennifer Snook

Download or read book American Heathens written by Jennifer Snook and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Heathens is the first in-depth ethnographic study about the largely misunderstood practice of American Heathenry (Germanic Paganism). Jennifer Snook—who has been Pagan since her early teens and a Heathen since eighteen—traces the development and trajectory of Heathenry as a new religious movement in America, one in which all identities are political and all politics matter. Snook explores the complexities of pagan reconstruction and racial, ethnic and gender identity in today’s divisive political climate. She considers the impact of social media on Heathen collectivities, and offers a glimpse of the world of Heathen meanings, rituals, and philosophy. In American Heathens, Snook presents the stories and perspectives of modern practitioners in engaging detail. She treats Heathens as members of a religious movement, rather than simply a subculture reenacting myths and stories of enchantment. Her book shrewdly addresses how people construct ethnicity in a reconstructionist (historically-minded) faith system with no central authority.


American Heathens Related Books

American Heathens
Language: en
Pages: 235
Authors: Jennifer Snook
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-06-12 - Publisher: Temple University Press

GET EBOOK

American Heathens is the first in-depth ethnographic study about the largely misunderstood practice of American Heathenry (Germanic Paganism). Jennifer Snook—
American Heathens
Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: Joshua Paddison
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-06-01 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

GET EBOOK

In the 19th-century debate over whether the United States should be an explicitly Christian nation, California emerged as a central battleground. Racial groups
Little Heathens
Language: en
Pages: 306
Authors: Mildred Armstrong Kalish
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-04-29 - Publisher: Bantam

GET EBOOK

I tell of a time, a place, and a way of life long gone. For many years I have had the urge to describe that treasure trove, lest it vanish forever. So, partly i
Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu
Language: en
Pages: 201
Authors: Michael J. Altman
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

GET EBOOK

Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu is a groundbreaking analysis of American representations of religion in India before the turn of the twentieth century. Before Americans
Being Viking
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Jefferson F. Calico
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018 - Publisher: Equinox Publishing (UK)

GET EBOOK

Being Viking provides a rigorous ethnographic account of the Asatru religion in America, also known as Heathenry or Heathenism. Arising from five years of origi