Nature and the environment in American Wicca

Author

Shawn Derek Arthur

Date of Award

5-2001

Degree Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts

Major

Philosophy

Major Professor

Charles Reynolds

Committee Members

Miriam Levering, Mark Hulsether

Abstract

This thesis is a historical sketch and overview of aspects of contemporary American Paganism and Wicca as 'Nature religions’. Wicca's historical roots in Britain are explored as is the cultural milieux surrounding the American environmentalist movement, and its fundamental influences on the development of American Wicca and contemporary Paganism. Themes of nature will be surveyed with respect to their increasing importance within Wicca since its arrival in America in the early 1960s, as well as the rapidly growing segments of these Pagan communities that are explicitly concerned with environmental and ecological issues

Recommended Citation

Arthur, Shawn Derek, "Nature and the environment in American Wicca. " Master's Thesis, University of Tennessee, 2001.
https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_gradthes/9556