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Reclaiming (formerly known as Reclaiming Collective) is an international community of women and men working to combine earth-based spirituality and political activism. Reclaiming was founded amid the peace and anti-nuclear movements of the late 1970s and early 1980s, and focuses on progressive social, political, environmental and economic activism. CND logo In British politics, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has been at the forefront of the peace movement in the United Kingdom and claims to be Europes largest single-issue peace campaign. ...
Reclaiming's spiritual approach is based in the religion and magic of the Goddess, who is understood as the Immanent Life Force, not as a transcendent deity. Theologically, Reclaiming is very diverse. The common thread is an active honoring and defending of the Earth. The focus of teaching and rituals is empowering the individual and the community to take action. Statue of Ceres, the Roman goddess of the agriculture A goddess is a female deity, in contrast with a male deity known as a god. Many cultures have goddesses, sometimes alone, but more often as part of a larger pantheon that includes both the conventional genders and in some cases...
Reclaiming originated about 1980 in the San Francisco Bay Area, blending the influences of Victor and Cora Anderson's Feri Tradition of Witchcraft, Dianic Witchcraft as taught by Z. Budapest, and the feminist, peace, and environmental movements. USGS Satellite photo of the San Francisco Bay Area. ...
Victor Henry Anderson (born May 21, 1917, in Clayton, New Mexico - died September 20, 2001) was an award-winning poet, a Kahuna, a leader of the American Neopagan movement, and the seminal teacher of the Feri Tradition (sometimes spelled Fairy, Faery or Faerie). ...
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Among the tradition's teachers are Starhawk, author of The Spiral Dance and several other books; T. Thorn Coyle, author of "Evolutionary Witchcraft"; and M. Macha Nightmare, co-author of "The Pagan Book of Living and Dying". Starhawk (born Miriam Simos in St. ...
The Spiral Dance: a Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess is a best-selling book about Pagan belief and practice by Starhawk. ...
T. Thorn Coyle is a San Francisco-based author and teacher in the Feri Tradition. ...
M. Macha NightMare, a priestess and witch, is an author, teacher and ritualist, with a penchant for collaboration. ...
Today, Reclaiming has several dozen affiliated communities across the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Weeklong intensives called "Witchcamps" bring Reclaiming people together in about a dozen regions. Classes such as "Elements of Magic," "Rites of Passage," and "Iron Pentacle" share practical skills in personal empowerment and group process. Reclaiming has also produced several CDs of pagan chants and songs, and publishes a magazine called "Reclaiming Quarterly."
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Neopaganism or Neo-Paganism is any of a heterogeneous group of new religious movements, particularly those influenced by ancient, primarily pre-Christian and sometimes pre-Judaic religions. ...
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The historic Blue Marble photograph, which helped bring environmentalism to the public eye. ...
Further reading - Jone Salomonsen, Enchanted Feminism: The Reclaiming Witches of San Francisco (London and New York: Routledge, 2002) ISBN 0-415-22392-X
- T. Thorn Coyle, Evolutionary Witchcraft (Tarcher/Penguin, 2004)
- Starhawk and M. Macha Nightmare, The Pagan Book of Living and Dying (Harper/SF, 1997)
- Starhawk, author of The Spiral Dance and numerous other books - see Starhawk
- Margot Adler, Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids Goddess-Worshippers and Other Pagans in America (Penguin, 2006)
- V. Vale, "Modern Pagans" (Re/Search, 2001)
T. Thorn Coyle is a San Francisco-based author and teacher in the Feri Tradition. ...
Starhawk (born Miriam Simos in St. ...
M. Macha NightMare, a priestess and witch, is an author, teacher and ritualist, with a penchant for collaboration. ...
Starhawk (born Miriam Simos in St. ...
The Spiral Dance: a Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess is a best-selling book about Pagan belief and practice by Starhawk. ...
Starhawk (born Miriam Simos in St. ...
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