Kathryn Rountree
Biographic Data
| ID | 3640919 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathryn Rountree |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathryn |
| FAMILY NAME | Rountree |
| SIGNATURE | ROUNTREE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massey University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 101 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Transcendendo o tempo e o lugar no contexto da Covid-19: A Imaginação E O Ritual Na Criação Do Espaço Sagrado Por Parte De Pagãos E Xamãs Modernos
Durante o ano de 2020, devido às restrições relacionadas à Covid-19, as oportunidades de viagem para locais de patrimônio sagrado diminuíram drasticamente e os encontros e rituais de pagãos e xamãs passaram a ser realizados de modo online. Este artigo retoma um trabalho anterior (Rountree, 2006) para reconsiderar as relações entre tempo, lugar, imaginação e performance ritual no contexto online. Argumenta-se que, enquanto no contexto de locais de…
Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Modern Paganism
Wicca: History, Belief, and Community in Modern Pagan Witchcraft
Wicca: History, Belief, and Community in Modern Pagan Witchcraft." Journal of Contemporary Religion, 32(1), pp. 179–180
Holy Sites, Archaeological Monuments and the Perennial Contest over Material Heritage
The article examines several cases of contested sites, situating the sometimes fraught relationship between proponents of religion and archaeology—with their competing claims to authority and ‘truth’—within the longstanding contest between Religion and Science. In particular the article addresses cases where sites in Greece (classical temples), Ireland (the Hill of Tara), Britain (Avebury, Stonehenge, the Rollright Stones) and Estonia have been c…
Contemporary Pagan and Native Faith Movements in Europe: Colonialist and Nationalist Impulses
The Academy, the Otherworld and Between
The paper discusses twenty-five years of research, beginning with feminist witches in New Zealand, moving to the small but diverse Pagan community of Malta, then to European Pagan communities more broadly, and recently to larger themes pertinent to Paganisms globally, such as nationalism, trans-nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and local/global influences and processes. My career and this paper are preoccupied with researcher and Pagan identities and…
Neo-Paganism, Native Faith and indigenous religion: A case study of Malta within the European context
This article surveys European neo‐Pagan and Native Faith movements that have emerged in the context of pan‐regional developments, new political configurations, environmental concerns and globalisation. While all engage with indigeneity, two broad trends are identified under the Pagan/Native Faith umbrella: (1) the adaptation of Anglo‐American Pagan traditions (e.g. Wicca, Druidry, neo‐shamanism, Goddess spirituality) to local contexts, thereby in…
Archaeology of Spiritualities
Neo-Paganism, Animism, and Kinship with Nature
Love for and kinship with nature' is the first principle of the Pagan Federation and putatively provides the foundation for contemporary Western Pagans' relationships with the natural environment and other-than-human beings. This article explores the meanings of kinship with nature and animism for neo-Pagans and asks whether expressions of such a worldview are more than metaphorical, rhetorical or simply wishful. The meanings for some indigenous …
Tara, the M3, and the Celtic Tiger: Contesting Cultural Heritage, Identity, and a Sacred Landscape in Ireland
This article explores the intersubjectivities of person and place, present and past, imagination and memory, heritage and identity, in the context of a decade-long dispute over the Irish government’s decision to build a motorway through the iconic landscape of Tara in County Meath. Tara has performed as a mnemonic for innumerable cultural narratives from the Neolithic to the twentieth century—stories materialized in the archaeological monuments a…
Localizing Neo-Paganism: Integrating global and indigenous traditions in a Mediterranean Catholic society
Based on ethnographic research amongst Wiccans and Pagans in Malta, this article addresses the intersection of the global and local in contemporary Paganism. It challenges the paradigm developed in scholarship of the movement which links its practitioners' motivations to a reclamation of folklore, localism, magical epistemology, and embodied religious experience. Unlike most societies where research on Neo-Paganism has been conducted, Malta is pr…
Archaeologists and Goddess Feminists at Çatalhöyük: An Experiment in Multivocality
The high-profile Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in central Turkey—made famous by James Mellaart in the 1960s—has become an increasingly contested space in recent years, its meanings being discussed not only among scientists but also within other local and global interest groups, including Goddess feminism. Creating space for the many voices of different interest groups is an explicit feature of the methodology embraced by the current excavation tea…
Goddess Spirituality and Nature in Aotearoa New Zealand
Participants in Goddess spirituality in New Zealand share two fundamental characteristics: their feminist political stance and their deep sense of connection with, love for and concern about the natural environment. Eschewing the essentialist formulation of women/nature, men/culture, they wish to dismantle all such dualisms, to advocate the embracing of Green philosophies and practices by all people, and to promote a worldview that honors the san…
Performing the Divine: Neo-Pagan Pilgrimages and Embodiment at Sacred Sites
This article discusses Neo-Pagan journeys to archaeological or heritage sites (such as ancient temples and stone circles) associated with pre-Christian religions and deities. It argues that within the rationale of a Neo-Pagan worldview, several common binaries dissolve and reveal themselves as continuities at sacred sites: human body and earth body, the past and the present, inner and outer worlds, self and other, human and deity. In the course o…
The Lion, the Witch and the Celebration of Discursive Diversity: Reflections on Naomi Goldenberg's ‘Witches and Words
Goddess Spirituality and Nature in Aotearoa New Zealand
From Medieval Pilgrimage to Religious Tourism: The Social and Cultural Economics of Piety
Journal Article From Medieval Pilgrimage to Religious Tourism: The Social and Cultural Economics of Piety, William H. Swatos, Jr. and Luigi Tomasi (eds.). Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002, 232 pp, $64.95 (cloth) Get access Kathryn Rountree Kathryn Rountree Massey University, New Zealand Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 66, Issue 2, Summer 2005, Pages 211–212, https://doi.org/10.2307…
Goddess Pilgrims as Tourists: Inscribing the Body through Sacred Travel
The paper examines the religions meanings of journeys made to sites associated with ancient Goddess worship by women who belong to the Goddess movement. While 'Goddess pilgrims' have characteristics in common with other religious pilgrims and with other middle-class tourists, especially those inclined towards ethnic tourism, environmental tourism and historical tourism, they also possess some crucial, distinctive characteristics. Through travelli…
How Magic Works: New Zealand Feminist Witches' Theories of Ritual Action
The paper draws on three years' fieldwork and twelve years' familiarity withfeminist witches in New Zealand. These women are thoughtful and articulate about their magical practice, and it is their theories about how magic works and the function of ritual-making which are the paper's central concern. Scholarly theories and debates about magic and ritual have frequently been dichotomously constructed: science versus magic, the symbolists versus the…
Re-inventing Malta's neolithic temples: Contemporary interpretations and agendas
This paper explores the different ways in which Malta's neolithic temples have been interpreted, contested and appropriated by different local and foreign interest groups: those working in the tourist industry, intellectuals and Maltese nationalists, hunters, archaeologists, artists, and participants in the global Goddess movement. The different perspectives are set against "traditional" popular interpretations of the temples. A particular focus …
The Past is a Foreigners' Country: Goddess Feminists, Archaeologists, and the Appropriation of Prehistory
Feminist archaeologists and others have criticised the Goddess movement, and Marija Gimbutas in particular, for producing 'Golden Age' theories about the past, claiming that there is no convincing archaeological evidence that Old Europe was universally peopled by matrifocal, peaceful, egalitarian societies who worshipped a Great Goddess. Goddess feminists are accused of appropriating and mythologising the past to serve their contemporary politica…
Re-making the Maori Female Body: Marianne Williams's Mission in the Bay of Islands
In New Zealand, as elsewhere in the Pacific, the processes of conversion, civilisation and colonisation were intimately connected, and missionary wives, although portrayed as subordinate and shadowy figures in mission life, played a significant role in their achievement. This paper examines the case of Marianne Williams, an energetic and effective agent of the CMS mission, and a prolific, articulate writer who was the first woman to write at leng…
The New Witch of the West: Feminists Reclaim the Crone
Performing the Divine: Neo-Pagan Pilgrimages and Embodiment at Sacred Sites
This article discusses Neo-Pagan journeys to archaeological or heritage sites (such as ancient temples and stone circles) associated with pre-Christian religions and deities. It argues that within the rationale of a Neo-Pagan worldview, several common binaries dissolve and reveal themselves as continuities at sacred sites: human body and earth body, the past and the present, inner and outer worlds, self and other, human and deity. In the course o…
Goddess Pilgrims as Tourists: Inscribing the Body through Sacred Travel
The paper examines the religions meanings of journeys made to sites associated with ancient Goddess worship by women who belong to the Goddess movement. While 'Goddess pilgrims' have characteristics in common with other religious pilgrims and with other middle-class tourists, especially those inclined towards ethnic tourism, environmental tourism and historical tourism, they also possess some crucial, distinctive characteristics. Through travelli…
Neo-Paganism, Animism, and Kinship with Nature
Love for and kinship with nature' is the first principle of the Pagan Federation and putatively provides the foundation for contemporary Western Pagans' relationships with the natural environment and other-than-human beings. This article explores the meanings of kinship with nature and animism for neo-Pagans and asks whether expressions of such a worldview are more than metaphorical, rhetorical or simply wishful. The meanings for some indigenous …
Re-inventing Malta's neolithic temples: Contemporary interpretations and agendas
This paper explores the different ways in which Malta's neolithic temples have been interpreted, contested and appropriated by different local and foreign interest groups: those working in the tourist industry, intellectuals and Maltese nationalists, hunters, archaeologists, artists, and participants in the global Goddess movement. The different perspectives are set against "traditional" popular interpretations of the temples. A particular focus …
The Past is a Foreigners' Country: Goddess Feminists, Archaeologists, and the Appropriation of Prehistory
Feminist archaeologists and others have criticised the Goddess movement, and Marija Gimbutas in particular, for producing 'Golden Age' theories about the past, claiming that there is no convincing archaeological evidence that Old Europe was universally peopled by matrifocal, peaceful, egalitarian societies who worshipped a Great Goddess. Goddess feminists are accused of appropriating and mythologising the past to serve their contemporary politica…
Localizing Neo-Paganism: Integrating global and indigenous traditions in a Mediterranean Catholic society
Based on ethnographic research amongst Wiccans and Pagans in Malta, this article addresses the intersection of the global and local in contemporary Paganism. It challenges the paradigm developed in scholarship of the movement which links its practitioners' motivations to a reclamation of folklore, localism, magical epistemology, and embodied religious experience. Unlike most societies where research on Neo-Paganism has been conducted, Malta is pr…
How Magic Works: New Zealand Feminist Witches' Theories of Ritual Action
The paper draws on three years' fieldwork and twelve years' familiarity withfeminist witches in New Zealand. These women are thoughtful and articulate about their magical practice, and it is their theories about how magic works and the function of ritual-making which are the paper's central concern. Scholarly theories and debates about magic and ritual have frequently been dichotomously constructed: science versus magic, the symbolists versus the…
Neo-Paganism, Native Faith and indigenous religion: A case study of Malta within the European context
This article surveys European neo‐Pagan and Native Faith movements that have emerged in the context of pan‐regional developments, new political configurations, environmental concerns and globalisation. While all engage with indigeneity, two broad trends are identified under the Pagan/Native Faith umbrella: (1) the adaptation of Anglo‐American Pagan traditions (e.g. Wicca, Druidry, neo‐shamanism, Goddess spirituality) to local contexts, thereby in…
Archaeologists and Goddess Feminists at Çatalhöyük: An Experiment in Multivocality
The high-profile Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in central Turkey—made famous by James Mellaart in the 1960s—has become an increasingly contested space in recent years, its meanings being discussed not only among scientists but also within other local and global interest groups, including Goddess feminism. Creating space for the many voices of different interest groups is an explicit feature of the methodology embraced by the current excavation tea…
The New Witch of the West: Feminists Reclaim the Crone
Goddess Spirituality and Nature in Aotearoa New Zealand
Participants in Goddess spirituality in New Zealand share two fundamental characteristics: their feminist political stance and their deep sense of connection with, love for and concern about the natural environment. Eschewing the essentialist formulation of women/nature, men/culture, they wish to dismantle all such dualisms, to advocate the embracing of Green philosophies and practices by all people, and to promote a worldview that honors the san…
Goddess Spirituality and Nature in Aotearoa New Zealand
Wicca: History, Belief, and Community in Modern Pagan Witchcraft
Wicca: History, Belief, and Community in Modern Pagan Witchcraft." Journal of Contemporary Religion, 32(1), pp. 179–180
The New Witch of the West: Feminists Reclaim the Crone
Re-making the Maori Female Body: Marianne Williams's Mission in the Bay of Islands
In New Zealand, as elsewhere in the Pacific, the processes of conversion, civilisation and colonisation were intimately connected, and missionary wives, although portrayed as subordinate and shadowy figures in mission life, played a significant role in their achievement. This paper examines the case of Marianne Williams, an energetic and effective agent of the CMS mission, and a prolific, articulate writer who was the first woman to write at leng…
The Past is a Foreigners' Country: Goddess Feminists, Archaeologists, and the Appropriation of Prehistory
Feminist archaeologists and others have criticised the Goddess movement, and Marija Gimbutas in particular, for producing 'Golden Age' theories about the past, claiming that there is no convincing archaeological evidence that Old Europe was universally peopled by matrifocal, peaceful, egalitarian societies who worshipped a Great Goddess. Goddess feminists are accused of appropriating and mythologising the past to serve their contemporary politica…
Goddess Pilgrims as Tourists: Inscribing the Body through Sacred Travel
The paper examines the religions meanings of journeys made to sites associated with ancient Goddess worship by women who belong to the Goddess movement. While 'Goddess pilgrims' have characteristics in common with other religious pilgrims and with other middle-class tourists, especially those inclined towards ethnic tourism, environmental tourism and historical tourism, they also possess some crucial, distinctive characteristics. Through travelli…
How Magic Works: New Zealand Feminist Witches' Theories of Ritual Action
The paper draws on three years' fieldwork and twelve years' familiarity withfeminist witches in New Zealand. These women are thoughtful and articulate about their magical practice, and it is their theories about how magic works and the function of ritual-making which are the paper's central concern. Scholarly theories and debates about magic and ritual have frequently been dichotomously constructed: science versus magic, the symbolists versus the…
Re-inventing Malta's neolithic temples: Contemporary interpretations and agendas
This paper explores the different ways in which Malta's neolithic temples have been interpreted, contested and appropriated by different local and foreign interest groups: those working in the tourist industry, intellectuals and Maltese nationalists, hunters, archaeologists, artists, and participants in the global Goddess movement. The different perspectives are set against "traditional" popular interpretations of the temples. A particular focus …
The Lion, the Witch and the Celebration of Discursive Diversity: Reflections on Naomi Goldenberg's ‘Witches and Words
Goddess Spirituality and Nature in Aotearoa New Zealand
From Medieval Pilgrimage to Religious Tourism: The Social and Cultural Economics of Piety
Journal Article From Medieval Pilgrimage to Religious Tourism: The Social and Cultural Economics of Piety, William H. Swatos, Jr. and Luigi Tomasi (eds.). Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002, 232 pp, $64.95 (cloth) Get access Kathryn Rountree Kathryn Rountree Massey University, New Zealand Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 66, Issue 2, Summer 2005, Pages 211–212, https://doi.org/10.2307…
Performing the Divine: Neo-Pagan Pilgrimages and Embodiment at Sacred Sites
This article discusses Neo-Pagan journeys to archaeological or heritage sites (such as ancient temples and stone circles) associated with pre-Christian religions and deities. It argues that within the rationale of a Neo-Pagan worldview, several common binaries dissolve and reveal themselves as continuities at sacred sites: human body and earth body, the past and the present, inner and outer worlds, self and other, human and deity. In the course o…
Archaeologists and Goddess Feminists at Çatalhöyük: An Experiment in Multivocality
The high-profile Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in central Turkey—made famous by James Mellaart in the 1960s—has become an increasingly contested space in recent years, its meanings being discussed not only among scientists but also within other local and global interest groups, including Goddess feminism. Creating space for the many voices of different interest groups is an explicit feature of the methodology embraced by the current excavation tea…
Goddess Spirituality and Nature in Aotearoa New Zealand
Participants in Goddess spirituality in New Zealand share two fundamental characteristics: their feminist political stance and their deep sense of connection with, love for and concern about the natural environment. Eschewing the essentialist formulation of women/nature, men/culture, they wish to dismantle all such dualisms, to advocate the embracing of Green philosophies and practices by all people, and to promote a worldview that honors the san…
Localizing Neo-Paganism: Integrating global and indigenous traditions in a Mediterranean Catholic society
Based on ethnographic research amongst Wiccans and Pagans in Malta, this article addresses the intersection of the global and local in contemporary Paganism. It challenges the paradigm developed in scholarship of the movement which links its practitioners' motivations to a reclamation of folklore, localism, magical epistemology, and embodied religious experience. Unlike most societies where research on Neo-Paganism has been conducted, Malta is pr…
Archaeology of Spiritualities
Neo-Paganism, Animism, and Kinship with Nature
Love for and kinship with nature' is the first principle of the Pagan Federation and putatively provides the foundation for contemporary Western Pagans' relationships with the natural environment and other-than-human beings. This article explores the meanings of kinship with nature and animism for neo-Pagans and asks whether expressions of such a worldview are more than metaphorical, rhetorical or simply wishful. The meanings for some indigenous …
Tara, the M3, and the Celtic Tiger: Contesting Cultural Heritage, Identity, and a Sacred Landscape in Ireland
This article explores the intersubjectivities of person and place, present and past, imagination and memory, heritage and identity, in the context of a decade-long dispute over the Irish government’s decision to build a motorway through the iconic landscape of Tara in County Meath. Tara has performed as a mnemonic for innumerable cultural narratives from the Neolithic to the twentieth century—stories materialized in the archaeological monuments a…
Neo-Paganism, Native Faith and indigenous religion: A case study of Malta within the European context
This article surveys European neo‐Pagan and Native Faith movements that have emerged in the context of pan‐regional developments, new political configurations, environmental concerns and globalisation. While all engage with indigeneity, two broad trends are identified under the Pagan/Native Faith umbrella: (1) the adaptation of Anglo‐American Pagan traditions (e.g. Wicca, Druidry, neo‐shamanism, Goddess spirituality) to local contexts, thereby in…
Holy Sites, Archaeological Monuments and the Perennial Contest over Material Heritage
The article examines several cases of contested sites, situating the sometimes fraught relationship between proponents of religion and archaeology—with their competing claims to authority and ‘truth’—within the longstanding contest between Religion and Science. In particular the article addresses cases where sites in Greece (classical temples), Ireland (the Hill of Tara), Britain (Avebury, Stonehenge, the Rollright Stones) and Estonia have been c…
Contemporary Pagan and Native Faith Movements in Europe: Colonialist and Nationalist Impulses
The Academy, the Otherworld and Between
The paper discusses twenty-five years of research, beginning with feminist witches in New Zealand, moving to the small but diverse Pagan community of Malta, then to European Pagan communities more broadly, and recently to larger themes pertinent to Paganisms globally, such as nationalism, trans-nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and local/global influences and processes. My career and this paper are preoccupied with researcher and Pagan identities and…
Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Modern Paganism
Wicca: History, Belief, and Community in Modern Pagan Witchcraft
Wicca: History, Belief, and Community in Modern Pagan Witchcraft." Journal of Contemporary Religion, 32(1), pp. 179–180
Transcendendo o tempo e o lugar no contexto da Covid-19: A Imaginação E O Ritual Na Criação Do Espaço Sagrado Por Parte De Pagãos E Xamãs Modernos
Durante o ano de 2020, devido às restrições relacionadas à Covid-19, as oportunidades de viagem para locais de patrimônio sagrado diminuíram drasticamente e os encontros e rituais de pagãos e xamãs passaram a ser realizados de modo online. Este artigo retoma um trabalho anterior (Rountree, 2006) para reconsiderar as relações entre tempo, lugar, imaginação e performance ritual no contexto online. Argumenta-se que, enquanto no contexto de locais de…
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