LoveReading Says
LoveReading Says
With a focus on modern reflections on timeless wisdom, The Modern Craft, edited by Claire Askew and Alice Tarbuck, is an engaging must-read for contemporary practitioners, and for anyone interested in discovering what modern witchcraft is and entails.
Springing from the editors’ personal transformation from “teenage goths who wore a lot of purple into fully-fledged, intersectional witches”, a process that “required finding answers to a great many questions”, at its heart it seeks solutions to one overarching issue: “How do I – how does any of us – develop responsible witchcraft?”
Among the essays, Jane Claire Bradley discusses empowerment, self-acceptance and activism for queer working-class witches, while Lisa Marie Bastille explores magic and mental health. Meanwhile, vital anthropological discussions around decolonisation, appropriation and ethics come courtesy of the essays on witchcraft and indigenous religion, and African traditional religions.
At once political, personal and underpinned by the notion that modern witchcraft should be a force for positive change, this collection is as fiery and thought-provoking as it is diverse.
Joanne Owen
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The Modern Craft Synopsis
The Modern Craft is an eclectic and radical collection of essays on witchcraft practice and the ethics of magic, which gives that much-needed modern context to timeless wisdom. It offers a fascinating snapshot of contemporary occult practice viewed through an intersectional lens. Essay topics include:
the ethics of decolonization
meditations on what it means to honour Mother Earth during the Anthropocene
the reclamation of agency for working-class and queer witches through practical spellwork
a gender-fluid perspective on breaking down traditional hierarchies in magical symbolism
a day in the life of a disabled Pagan Irish practitioner
Inspiring and electrifying glimpses from the brink of the contemporary Craft, these essays show how anyone, no matter who they are, can find positivity and the force for change in the subversive unknown.
Contributors include: Claire Askew, Lisa Marie Basile, Stella Hervey Birrell, Jane Claire Bradley, Madelyn Burnhope, Lilith Dorsey, AW Earl, Harry Josephine Giles, Simone Kotva, Iona Lee, Briana Pegado, Megan Rudden, Sabrina Scott, Em Still and Alice Tarbuck.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781786786449 |
| Publication date: |
14th June 2022 |
| Author: |
Alice Tarbuck, Claire Askew |
| Publisher: |
Watkins Publishing an imprint of Watkins Media |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
240 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Health & Fitness
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Alice Tarbuck, Claire Askew Press Reviews
With courage, conviction, and a fierce love and respect for the craft, this fiery collection is poised to spark vital conversations and radical change in the world of witchcraft and beyond.
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About Alice Tarbuck, Claire Askew
Dr Alice Tarbuck is a writer, author of A Spell In The Wild and academic specializing in witchcraft and environmental humanities. She has been featured in Nasty Women and The Dangerous Women Project, and she has spoken on witchcraft at Scottish PEN, Freedom TV and the Arthur Conan Doyle Centre.
Follow Alice on Social Media:
Twitter: @atarbuck
Instagram: @alice_tarbuck
Website: https://alicetarbuck.net
Dr Claire Askew is the author of three novels: All The Hidden Truths, What You Pay For and Cover Your Tracks. A fourth, A Matter of Time, is out this year. Also a poet, Claire's second collection How to burn a woman features voices from the European Witchcraft Hysteria. Claire’s accolades include the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, a Jessie Kesson Fellowship and the McIlvanney Debut Prize.
Follow Clare on Social Media:
Twitter: @OneNightStanzas
Instagram: @one.night.stanzas
Website: https://claireaskew.com
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