Dreaming the Dark Magic, Sex, and Politics,9780807010372

Dreaming the Dark Magic, Sex, and Politics

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Edition: 15th
ISBN13: 9780807010372
ISBN10: 0807010375
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1997-04-30
Publisher(s): Beacon Press
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Summary

Featuring narrative, chants, songs, and rituals,Dreaming the Darkhas helped many thousands of women use magic, spirituality, and community to bring about political and social change. This anniversary edition of the best-selling classic includes a new preface reflecting on the fifteen years since the book's original publication.

Author Biography

A writer, activist, and witch, STARHAWK is the author, most recently, of The Fifth Sacred Thing and Walking to Mercury. She lives in San Francisco.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Fifteenth Anniversary Edition xi
Acknowledgments xxiii
Prologue xxv
Power-Over and Power-From-Within
1(14)
Thought-Forms: Magic as Language
15(18)
The Ethics of Magic
33(12)
Reclaiming Personal Power: Magic as Will
45(27)
Goddesses and Gods: The Landscape of Culture
72(20)
Building Community: Processes for Groups
92(22)
Circles and Webs: Group Structures
114(21)
Sex and Politics
135(19)
Ritual as Bonding: Action as Ritual
154(27)
Epilogue 181(2)
Appendix A: The Burning Times: Notes on a Crucial Period of History 183(37)
Appendix B: Tools for Groups 220(3)
Appendix C: Chants and Songs 223(6)
Notes and Sources 229

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