Table of Contents

Introduction. “We are the Weavers, We are the Web”: Cosmopolitan Entanglements in Modern Paganism.- Appropriating, Romanticizing and Reimagining: Pagan Engagements with Indigenous Animism.- Heathens in the United States: The Return to “Tribes” in the Construction of a Peoplehood.- Only Slavic Gods: Nativeness in Polish Rodzimowierstwo.- Obsessed with Culture: The Cultural Impetus of Russian Neo-pagans.- Multiple Nationalisms and Patriotisms among Russian Rodnovers.- Blood Brothers or Blood Enemies: Ukrainian Pagans’ Beliefs and Responses to the Ukraine-Russia Crisis.- Canaanite Reconstructionism among Contemporary Israeli Pagans.- Pagan Identity Politics, Witchcraft, and the Law: Encounters with Postcolonial Nationalism in Democratic South Africa.- Cosmopolitan Witchcraft: Reinventing the Wheel of the Year in Australian Paganism.- Cosmopolitanism, Neo-Shamans, and Contemporary Māori Healers in New Zealand.- The Spirits are Cosmopolitan too: Contemporary Shamanism in Malta.

About the Author

Kathryn Rountree is Professor of Anthropology at Massey University, New Zealand.  She has published on contemporary Paganism in Malta and New Zealand, feminist spirituality, sacred sites, shamanism and animism. Books include Contemporary Pagan and Native Faith Movements in Europe (2015), Crafting Contemporary Pagan Identities in a Catholic Society (2010), Embracing the Witch and the Goddess (2004) and the co-edited Archaeology of Spiritualities (2012).