This accessible study of Northern European shamanistic practice, or seidr, explores the way in which the ancient Norse belief systems evoked in the Icelandic Sagas and Eddas have been rediscovered and
Anthropologist Blain (applied social sciences, Sheffield Hallam U.) and archaeologist Wallis (visual culture, Richmond U. London) explore the discursive construction of sacred sites in Britain--most f
So begins a series on paganism as a mode of religious expression concealed within other religious traditions, and as a self-conscious set of religious traditions themselves. In the first volume, 13 re
