The Mysteries of Witchcraft

This is a graph of the recent rise in people who are identifying as Wicca. As we can see, in just 18 years the religion has grown by almost 400,000 people, with the biggest increase starting in '01.  Kopf, Dan, and Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz. “The US Witch Population Has Seen an Astronomical Rise.” Quartz , Quartz, 2018, qz.com/quartzy/1411909/the-explosive-growth-of-witches-wiccans-and-pagans-in-the-us/.  

  What drives women of all ages to become a part of Wicca and witchcraft? How do these women use Wicca as a political angle and why do many communities within Wicca deny this political side of their religion? Sources: Jarvis, Christine. “Becoming a Woman Through Wicca: Witches and Wiccans in Contemporary Teen Fiction.”  Children’s Literature in Education , vol. 39, no. 1, Springer Netherlands, 2008, pp. 43–52, doi:10.1007/s10583-007-9058-0 Warwick, Lynda L. “Feminist Wicca: Paths to Empowerment.”  Women & Therapy , vol. 16, no. 2-3, Taylor & Francis Group, 1995, pp. 121–33, doi:10.1300/J015v16n02_13.    Fine, Julia C. “MagicResistance: Anti ‐ Trump Witchcraft as Register Circulation.”  Journal of Linguistic Anthropology , vol. 30, no. 1, 2020, pp. 68–85, doi:10.1111/jola.12249 Magliocco, Sabina. “ Witchcraft as Political Resistance.”  Nova Religio , vol. 23, no. 4, 2020, pp. 43–68, doi:10.1525/nr.2020.23.4.43. Smith, Thomas Aneurin. “ Witchcra...

  Resisting Rhetorics of Violence: Women, Witches, and Wicca by Jo Pearson Citation: Pearson, Jo. “Resisting Rhetorics of Violence: Women, Witches and Wicca.”  Feminist Theology , vol. 18, no. 2, SAGE Publications, 2010, pp. 141–59, doi:10.1177/0966735009348669. https://journals-sagepub-com.proxy.libraries.rutgers.edu/doi/abs/10.1177/0966735009348669 Summary:           Pearson covers the history of the violence against witches and the different types of violence that not just witches, but all women face. It also speaks about the kind of violence that the witch can cause against others witch magic or revenge. She talks about the three different types of witches being Daly-an, Starhawkin, and Wiccan and how they differ from each other when it comes to empowerment and its depictions of violence. Author:           I could not find anything about Jo Pearson, as the only results t...