Description: Coming to the Edge of the Circle : A Wiccan Initiation Ritual, Paperback by Bado, Nikki, ISBN 019981225X, ISBN-13 9780199812257, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Imagine yourself sitting on the cool damp earth, surrounded by deep night sky and fields full of fireflies, anticipating the ritual of initiation that you are about to undergo. Suddenly you hear the sounds of far-off singing and chanting, drums booming, rattles "snaking," voices raised in
harmony. The casting of the Circle is complete. You are led to the edge of the Circle, where Death, your challenge, is waiting for you. With the passwords of "perfect love" and "perfect trust" you enter Deaths realm. The Guardians of the four quarters purify you, and you are finally reborn into the
Circle as a newly made Witch.
Coming to the Edge of the Circle offers an ethnographic study of the initiation ritual practiced by one coven of Witches located in Ohio. As a High Priestess within the coven as well as a scholar of religion, Nikki Bado is in a unique position to contribute to our understanding of this ceremony and
the tradition to which it belongs. Bados analysis of this covens initiation ceremony offers an important challenge to the commonly accepted model of "rites of passage." Rather than a single linear event, initiation is deeply embedded within a total process of becoming a Witch in practice and in
community with others.
Coming to the Edge of the Circle expands our concept of initiation while giving us insight into one covens practice of Wicca. An important addition to Ritual Studies, it also introduces readers to the contemporary nature religion variously called Wicca, Witchcraft, the Old Religion, or the Craft.
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Book Title: Coming to the Edge of the Circle : A Wiccan Initiation Ritual
Number of Pages: 200 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Coming to the Edge of the Circle : a Wiccan Initiation Ritual
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2012
Subject: Witchcraft (See Also Religion / Wicca), General, Women's Studies, Customs & Traditions
Item Height: 0.4 in
Item Weight: 10.2 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Religion, Body, Mind & Spirit, Social Science
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Nikki Bado
Series: Aar Academy Ser.
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
