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@@ -1,9 +1,15 @@ +Random importaint stuff: + Children are raised wiccan but it's made essencial that it's optional + + History: Gerald Gardner: Publisized wicca in book "Witchcraft Today", 1954 Created the Garderian tradidion of wikka from + Created "Books of Shadows" - not a sacred text, but contains a lot of stuff gerald liked. Doreen Valiente ("Mother of Wicca"): + Was in Gerald Garder's coven Outlined traditional core beliefs, principles, and practices before Gerald publisized it, in 1940's and 1950's @@ -36,6 +42,8 @@ Beleifs: Polytheisim: > all gods are one god, all godesses are one godess > Other stuff I shouldn't get into because this is taking too long + + Pentagram: earth, air, fire, water, and aether/spirit After life doesn't play centreal peice in religon Reincarnation is common beleif @@ -57,7 +65,7 @@ Beleifs: * Lammas * Halloween > Rites of passage: - * + > "all practitioners are considered to be priests and priestesses" Practices: > Many partake in them without beleif, as the rituals themselves induce a religous experience more then "dry" practices @@ -76,11 +84,19 @@ Values: Tradition branches: Wicca is devided into branches of diffrent beleifs and orginizational structures, these branches are called traditions + Some main ones: + > Gardnerian, Alexandrian and Algard make up British Traditional Wicca, based on Gerald's teachings + > Traces back through super duper long proxy to Zsuzsanna Budapest, prefer "Witches" more then "wiccan" + Covens of 13 (about). Require initiation after a year-day. + Covens have no hiarchy structure + Eclentric Wiccca's don't follow common traditional beleifs, make their own stuff Misconceptions/controversy: Is it a religon? Evangelical Christains tried to make sure it wasn't legally classified as a religon "Wicca has both influenced/been influenced by other Pagan religions, making clear-cut distinctions difficult for religious studies scholars" + "Dettmer v. Landon" classifieed it as a religon, which was started for ritual objects in prisons + In 2007 pentagram was allowed for headstones of deceiced in millitary Paragraph ideas: History @@ -89,4 +105,33 @@ Paragraph ideas: Diffrent branches of wiccan Values of wiccan Beleifs of wiccan - + +.....essay structure..... +Introduction + Explain the basics of what the Wiccan religion is +Founding history + Explain begining with Gerald and Doreen, with the initial coven +Orginizional structure + Covens, traditions, no hiarchy + Go into seperate traditions? +Beleifs + Dual gods + Interpetations of those gods + Gods don't have all the answers + 5 elements, symbolisim +Values + No dogmatic code + "An it harm done, do what ye will" (Wiccan Rede) + 8 virtues + Threefold return +Practices + 4 celibrations of year + Initiation into covens +Controversy + Debated weather or not it's a religon + 2007 gravestones + Prison, Dettmer v. Landon + People relating it to satanisim + "coming out of the broom closet" +Conclusioin + ???? |