I was hoping I could get you all to indulge me in a little bit of creative brainstorming. Many books on modern magic-related religions are either focusing on a specific path or trying to mash everything into one superpagan mush (frequently while interchanging Wicca and witchcraft, joys).
I always like to think about what books I might write someday in my copious free time, ha ha ha, and I'd like to play with the idea of writing a book on the modern pagan "scene" and the popular elements like Ravenfluff and the ever-so-abused term Wiccan in regards to the less-popular but better researched paths.
I know it's a broad topic, but I'm not thinking of writing the book for people who are hoping for sort of an encyclopedia of paths. I'm thinking of this in terms of those who aren't looking to follow one of these paths but still want to know more about the modern pagan world. Sort of a source book to point to when someone, say, listens to the local news and hears that your state is just a super-great place for Wiccans and that it's a growing religion in the area.
So, for fun, here's the questions-- pretend we're all gonna write this book:
Which paths would you try to represent? Just how inclusive would you try to be? Would you include paths that use magic but do not consider themselves pagan in nature?
How would you represent the scene as such? How would you reconcile the popular (and what the media has helped to promote as reality) with the well-researched?
Would you conduct interviews with both fluff types and non-fluff types?
((And as a bonus research note, where could one hope to get numbers and statistics from when within the pagan scene there's such a horrible muddling of bad research and misunderstood terms?))
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