Ethan Doyle White
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 527103 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ethan Doyle White |
| NOMBRES | Ethan Doyle |
| APELLIDO | White |
| FIRMA | WHITE E D |
| AFILIACIONES | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9946-6163 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2011 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Barbara Jane Davy, ‘Wyrd Ecology
Barbara Jane Davy, Wyrd Ecology: Heathen Ritual and Gifting Relations (New York: Oxford University Press, 2025), x + 229 pp., $125.00 (pbk), $34.99 (pbk), ISBN: 9780197804919
Germanic and Slavic Paganisms
Shamanic Materialities in Nordic Climates by Trude Fonneland and Tiina Äikäs, and
Shadow Worlds
Ronald Hutton, ‘Queens of the Wild
Ronald Hutton, Queens of the Wild: Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe—An Investigation (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2022), 245 pp., $16.99 (pbk), ISBN: 9780300273342
God of the Witches, Woden Incarnate, or Son of Herne? On the Genealogy of the Pagan Robin Hood
Modern Religious Druidry
Modern Religious Druidry
New God for a New Paganism
Modern Pagan religions are past-oriented, seeking inspiration and legitimation from the pre-Christian religions that once existed in and around Europe. This has led modern Pagan groups to adopt various ideas about pre-Christian religions and their survival that stem from late nineteenth and early twentieth-century scholarship – including the notion of the Green Man. The belief that the foliate heads of medieval ecclesiastical architecture demonst…
Saxon Kent versus Roman London? Presenting Borderland Heritage at the Faesten Dic in Joyden’s Wood, Kent
Standing on Kent’s western border with Greater London, the Faesten Dic in Joyden’s Wood is one of Britain’s less-well known linear earthworks. There has been speculation as to its origins since the late nineteenth century, although as of yet no conclusive dating evidence has been revealed. This article reviews the archaeological and historical evidence for the site, before exploring the ways in which the heritage of this earthwork has been presen…
Christianity, Islam, and the UK Independence Party
The United Kingdom is at a political crossroads. A 2016 referendum on European Union (EU) membership brought a narrow victory for those endorsing “Brexit,” the UK’s withdrawal from the politico-economic union. While the reasons for this outcome are multi-faceted, one factor looms large: the electoral successes of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) over the course of 2013 to 2015. UKIP began life in 1993 as a Eurosceptic, single-issue party but achi…
Spellbound
Magic is in the air it seems, or at least in the air around some of Britain’s foremost museums. Less than a year after the British Library hosted its major exhibit on “Harry Potter: A History of Ma
The Creation of “Traditional Witchcraft”
Since the early 1990s, increasing numbers of occultists have come to identify as practitioners of “Traditional Witchcraft”, “Traditional Craft”, or “Old Craft”. This article maps out this milieu, outlining the existence of both its modern Pagan and Luciferian components and in doing so demonstrating that the term lacks precision for etic scholarly purposes. It follows this by exploring what purpose this term actually serves, examining both its hi…
Visualising a sacred city
Ritual failure
Harry Potter
“In all societies, the world over, magic came first.” These are among the words with which J. K. Rowling, the best-selling author of the Harry Potter series, introduces this major new British Libra
Northern Gods for Northern Folk
Heathenry, the modern Pagan religion inspired by the Germanic societies of pre-Christian Europe, is broadly divided between those embracing an inclusive, Universalist perspective, and those who favour a racially exclusive, Folkish alternative. This article represents the first academic analysis of Folkish Heathenry in Britain, focusing on the country’s three most visible groups: the Odinic Rite, the Odinist Fellowship, and Woden’s Folk. Examining…
Brian J. McVeigh, How Religion Evolved
Brian J. McVeigh, How Religion Evolved: Explaining the Living Dead, Talking Idols, and Mesmerizing Monuments." Time and Mind, 10(3), pp. 325–326
The Life of Margaret Alice Murray
Michael D. J. Bintley and Thomas J. T. Williams , Representing Beasts in Early Medieval England and Scandinavia
"Michael D. J. Bintley and Thomas J. T. Williams, Representing Beasts in Early Medieval England and Scandinavia." Time and Mind, 9(3), p. 0
The New Cultus of Antinous
The contemporary Pagan movement, or Neo-Paganism, constitutes a growing sector of modern Western religiosity. While much scholarly attention has focused on larger Pagan religions like Wicca and Goddess Spirituality, this has come at the expense of studies into many of their smaller counterparts. Among those neglected faiths has been the contemporary cultus of Antinous, a small yet growing number of practitioners who venerate the deified lover of …
The materiality of magic
At the 34th annual congress of the Theoretical Archaeology Group, held at the University of Liverpool in 2012, two postgraduate students from the University of Manchester – Ceri Houlbrook and Natal
Theoretical, Terminological, and Taxonomic Trouble in the Academic Study of Contemporary Paganism
As the academic study of contemporary Paganism approaches its fourth decade, it faces a variety of theoretical, methodological, and terminological challenges, some of which have faced little or no exploration to date. Here, an attempt to tackle some of the most significant will be made. First, I will examine both how academics and practicing Pagans have defined “contemporary Paganism,” criticizing many such definitions and arguing for the scholar…
Old stones, new rites
The Medway Megaliths, a series of seven archaeological monuments located in Kent, South-eastern England, are today viewed as “sacred sites” by practitioners of various contemporary Pagan religions, including Druidry, Heathenry, and Wicca. Examining how these Pagans understand the Megaliths as both ancestral spaces and sources of “earth energies”, this paper then looks at the forms of religious expression that are carried out there, and in doing s…
Sex, Death and Witchcraft
Book Review| May 01 2015 Sex, Death and Witchcraft: A Contemporary Pagan Festival Sex, Death and Witchcraft: A Contemporary Pagan Festival. By Douglas Ezzy. Bloomsbury, 2014. 204 pages. $130.00 cloth; $39.99 paper; $20.83 Kindle. Ethan Doyle White Ethan Doyle White University College London Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2015) 18 (4): 108–110. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2015.18.4.108 Views …
Devil's Stones and Midnight Rites
During the middle years of the twentieth century, British pioneers of Wicca, the neopagan witchcraft religion, adopted prehistoric megaliths as ‘sacred sites’ and appropriated the folklore that surrounded them for their own magico-religious purposes. In turn, Wiccan interpretations of such sites resulted in the creation of a new ‘alternative archaeological’ megalithic folklore
Christianity, Islam, and the UK Independence Party
The United Kingdom is at a political crossroads. A 2016 referendum on European Union (EU) membership brought a narrow victory for those endorsing “Brexit,” the UK’s withdrawal from the politico-economic union. While the reasons for this outcome are multi-faceted, one factor looms large: the electoral successes of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) over the course of 2013 to 2015. UKIP began life in 1993 as a Eurosceptic, single-issue party but achi…
Theoretical, Terminological, and Taxonomic Trouble in the Academic Study of Contemporary Paganism
As the academic study of contemporary Paganism approaches its fourth decade, it faces a variety of theoretical, methodological, and terminological challenges, some of which have faced little or no exploration to date. Here, an attempt to tackle some of the most significant will be made. First, I will examine both how academics and practicing Pagans have defined “contemporary Paganism,” criticizing many such definitions and arguing for the scholar…
Saxon Kent versus Roman London? Presenting Borderland Heritage at the Faesten Dic in Joyden’s Wood, Kent
Standing on Kent’s western border with Greater London, the Faesten Dic in Joyden’s Wood is one of Britain’s less-well known linear earthworks. There has been speculation as to its origins since the late nineteenth century, although as of yet no conclusive dating evidence has been revealed. This article reviews the archaeological and historical evidence for the site, before exploring the ways in which the heritage of this earthwork has been presen…
Paganistan
Based upon research conducted for her doctoral thesis from 1999 to 2008, as well as additional observations made in 2012, in Paganistan the American anthropologist and long-standing Pagan practitio
Trees and timber in the Anglo-Saxon world
Timber, and the trees that it came from, played a central role for the English people during the Anglo-Saxon period. It was from wood that fuel was gathered, buildings were constructed, and tools
In Defense of Pagan Studies
"The Meaning of "Wicca
This essay provides the first comprehensive examination of how the term Wicca - used in reference to the modern religion of Pagan Witchcraft - has been utilised throughout the faith's history. Examining its antecedents, including the Old English wicca and the early Gardnerian Wica, the author looks at the many definitions that the term has seen over the last seventy years, and comes to conclusions that provide a new interpretation of not only how…
"The Meaning of "Wicca
This essay provides the first comprehensive examination of how the term Wicca - used in reference to the modern religion of Pagan Witchcraft - has been utilised throughout the faith's history. Examining its antecedents, including the Old English wicca and the early Gardnerian Wica, the author looks at the many definitions that the term has seen over the last seventy years, and comes to conclusions that provide a new interpretation of not only how…
In Defense of Pagan Studies
Robert Cochrane and the Gardnerian Craft
The English occultist Robert Cochrane (1931–1966) has remained one of the most enigmatic figures from the burgeoning contemporary British Witchcraft movement, being the founder of the Cochranian tradition and a core influence on the “Traditional Craft” current that has blossomed in the West since the early 1990s. The magister of a coven named the Clan of Tubal Cain, Cochrane was known for his scathing criticisms of Gerald Gardner and the Gardneri…
“Mummers, Maypoles and Milkmaids
This review article critiques the Horniman Museum's temporary exhibition, "Mummers, Maypoles and Milkmaids: A Journey through the English Ritual Year" (22 October 2011 to 09 September 2012), which contained fifty photographs by Sara Hannant documenting English folk festivals in the early twenty-first century. In particular this review focuses on the portrayal of contemporary Paganism within the exhibit
Avatar and Nature Spirituality
Book Review| November 01 2014 Avatar and Nature Spirituality Avatar and Nature Spirituality. Edited by Bron Taylor. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013. 367 pages. $38.99 paper. Ethan Doyle White Ethan Doyle White Independent Scholar Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2014) 18 (2): 119–120. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2014.18.2.119 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audi…
The Goddess Frig
This article critically examines the evidence for the existence of the Anglo-Saxon goddess Frig, exploring toponyms, day names, Old English textual sources, archaeology, and comparisons with continental Germanic mythologies. Challenging previous assertions that she was the consort of the god Woden and was associated with love and motherhood, it furthermore contends that this scholarly misinterpretation of the deity has had wider repercussions, af…
Trees and timber in the Anglo-Saxon world
Timber, and the trees that it came from, played a central role for the English people during the Anglo-Saxon period. It was from wood that fuel was gathered, buildings were constructed, and tools
Rock art and ritual
Devil's Stones and Midnight Rites
During the middle years of the twentieth century, British pioneers of Wicca, the neopagan witchcraft religion, adopted prehistoric megaliths as ‘sacred sites’ and appropriated the folklore that surrounded them for their own magico-religious purposes. In turn, Wiccan interpretations of such sites resulted in the creation of a new ‘alternative archaeological’ megalithic folklore
Sex, Death and Witchcraft
Book Review| May 01 2015 Sex, Death and Witchcraft: A Contemporary Pagan Festival Sex, Death and Witchcraft: A Contemporary Pagan Festival. By Douglas Ezzy. Bloomsbury, 2014. 204 pages. $130.00 cloth; $39.99 paper; $20.83 Kindle. Ethan Doyle White Ethan Doyle White University College London Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2015) 18 (4): 108–110. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2015.18.4.108 Views …
Occultism in a Global Perspective
Book Review| February 01 2015 Occultism in a Global Perspective Occultism in a Global Perspective. Edited by Henrik Bogdan and Gordan Djurdjevic. Acumen, 2013. x + 258 pages. $99.95 cloth. Ethan Doyle White Ethan Doyle White 1Independent Scholar Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2015) 18 (3): 111–112. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2015.18.3.111 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables V…
Paganistan
Based upon research conducted for her doctoral thesis from 1999 to 2008, as well as additional observations made in 2012, in Paganistan the American anthropologist and long-standing Pagan practitio
The Life of Margaret Alice Murray
Michael D. J. Bintley and Thomas J. T. Williams , Representing Beasts in Early Medieval England and Scandinavia
"Michael D. J. Bintley and Thomas J. T. Williams, Representing Beasts in Early Medieval England and Scandinavia." Time and Mind, 9(3), p. 0
The New Cultus of Antinous
The contemporary Pagan movement, or Neo-Paganism, constitutes a growing sector of modern Western religiosity. While much scholarly attention has focused on larger Pagan religions like Wicca and Goddess Spirituality, this has come at the expense of studies into many of their smaller counterparts. Among those neglected faiths has been the contemporary cultus of Antinous, a small yet growing number of practitioners who venerate the deified lover of …
The materiality of magic
At the 34th annual congress of the Theoretical Archaeology Group, held at the University of Liverpool in 2012, two postgraduate students from the University of Manchester – Ceri Houlbrook and Natal
Theoretical, Terminological, and Taxonomic Trouble in the Academic Study of Contemporary Paganism
As the academic study of contemporary Paganism approaches its fourth decade, it faces a variety of theoretical, methodological, and terminological challenges, some of which have faced little or no exploration to date. Here, an attempt to tackle some of the most significant will be made. First, I will examine both how academics and practicing Pagans have defined “contemporary Paganism,” criticizing many such definitions and arguing for the scholar…
Old stones, new rites
The Medway Megaliths, a series of seven archaeological monuments located in Kent, South-eastern England, are today viewed as “sacred sites” by practitioners of various contemporary Pagan religions, including Druidry, Heathenry, and Wicca. Examining how these Pagans understand the Megaliths as both ancestral spaces and sources of “earth energies”, this paper then looks at the forms of religious expression that are carried out there, and in doing s…
Northern Gods for Northern Folk
Heathenry, the modern Pagan religion inspired by the Germanic societies of pre-Christian Europe, is broadly divided between those embracing an inclusive, Universalist perspective, and those who favour a racially exclusive, Folkish alternative. This article represents the first academic analysis of Folkish Heathenry in Britain, focusing on the country’s three most visible groups: the Odinic Rite, the Odinist Fellowship, and Woden’s Folk. Examining…
Brian J. McVeigh, How Religion Evolved
Brian J. McVeigh, How Religion Evolved: Explaining the Living Dead, Talking Idols, and Mesmerizing Monuments." Time and Mind, 10(3), pp. 325–326
The Creation of “Traditional Witchcraft”
Since the early 1990s, increasing numbers of occultists have come to identify as practitioners of “Traditional Witchcraft”, “Traditional Craft”, or “Old Craft”. This article maps out this milieu, outlining the existence of both its modern Pagan and Luciferian components and in doing so demonstrating that the term lacks precision for etic scholarly purposes. It follows this by exploring what purpose this term actually serves, examining both its hi…
Visualising a sacred city
Ritual failure
Harry Potter
“In all societies, the world over, magic came first.” These are among the words with which J. K. Rowling, the best-selling author of the Harry Potter series, introduces this major new British Libra
Christianity, Islam, and the UK Independence Party
The United Kingdom is at a political crossroads. A 2016 referendum on European Union (EU) membership brought a narrow victory for those endorsing “Brexit,” the UK’s withdrawal from the politico-economic union. While the reasons for this outcome are multi-faceted, one factor looms large: the electoral successes of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) over the course of 2013 to 2015. UKIP began life in 1993 as a Eurosceptic, single-issue party but achi…
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