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Article: The Triumph of the Moon.(Review) (book review) (book review)
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- March 1, 2000
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The Triumph of the Moon
A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft
Ronald Hutton Oxford University Press xv + 486 pp. 25 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0-19-820744-1
`PAGAN' IS A POTENT WORD, evoking a wide range of emotions and views based on one's religious beliefs and understanding of the past. Its original meaning is still the cause of some debate, but it is generally used to describe those pre-Christian religions which the Church had successfully supplanted in all of Europe by the end of the medieval period; religions which were essentially polytheistic, and from the Church's point of view, dependent on `pernicious' magic. But we should not think of ...