Um...I need sources on Wicca...

[With Motion]

Normally I wouldn't actually go on any forum and ask for help finding sources, but I'm stumped now. I want to do a speech on Wicca (the truths and the lies) for one of my classes and I want to do well, but one of the requirements is to find a source through an academic search engine. All the sources I have are useless and I can't find any in the academic searches I've been doing.

Can someone help me? Pwetty Pwease?

I would also use these sources to further my own knowledge. Or are there no academic sources and I need to wing it? xp

(For the record, the closest I got to "academic" sources was an essay on Wicca from a Christian PoV [ rolleyes ] and "Teen Witch")  

[Sound Doxa]

Academic search engine?
Like http://scholar.google.com?  

[maenad nuri]

Ronald Hutton. Just a name to get you started.

Chas Clifton too, he edits a peer-reviewed (I think) journal on pagan scholarship called The Pomegranate. You may find something there too.

(hint from a wanna be librarian: sometimes it is best to have several topics in hand, just to check out what sources you'll have, before deciding on a topic)  

[With Motion]

SoundDoctrine

Academic search engine?
Like http://scholar.google.com?

Yep, that's exactly what I used. Didn't work.

Nuri

Ronald Hutton. Just a name to get you started.

Chas Clifton too, he edits a peer-reviewed (I think) journal on pagan scholarship called The Pomegranate. You may find something there too.

Thank you!

Quote:

(hint from a wanna be librarian: sometimes it is best to have several topics in hand, just to check out what sources you'll have, before deciding on a topic)

I know, my teacher wouldn't let me do the topic I wanted which I had researched, Industrial Music crying  

[CuAnnan]

Gerald Gardner, Alex Sanders.  

[Starlock]

Helen A. Berger has done census work on the broader Neopagan movement, including Wicca. Susan Greenwood has written one interesting work I'm familiar with entitiled "Magic, Witchcraft and the Otherworld."

Then there's some stuff I found I have not read yet:

Sabina Magliocco has written "Witching Culture: Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America"
Blain Jenny: "Researching Paganisms (The Pagan Studies Series)"

And others I don't have authors and titles for offhand.  

[Darin Rosewood]

Cuchullain

Gerald Gardner, Alex Sanders.

I love you, you know that?  

[TeaDidikai]

Cuchullain

Gerald Gardner, Alex Sanders.

How about the Farrar's?  

[Doctrix]

Also, check your local and school library to see if they subscribe to a database. Maybe something like ATLA Religion, Gale Virtual Reference Library, Humanities Abstracts, Religious Periodicals or Routledge Religion Resource Online, etc. might help?  

[With Motion]

[Kudzu]

Also, check your local and school library to see if they subscribe to a database. Maybe something like ATLA Religion, Gale Virtual Reference Library, Humanities Abstracts, Religious Periodicals or Routledge Religion Resource Online, etc. might help?

Maybe. I've never used the campus library before.
...it's been years since I used any library before xp  

[TheDisreputableDog]

Light[]Yagami

[Kudzu]

Also, check your local and school library to see if they subscribe to a database. Maybe something like ATLA Religion, Gale Virtual Reference Library, Humanities Abstracts, Religious Periodicals or Routledge Religion Resource Online, etc. might help?

Maybe. I've never used the campus library before.
...it's been years since I used any library before xp

Please tell me this phenomenon is not as common as it seems to be before I cry. confused  

[AvalonAuggie]

JSTOR isn't a comprehensive site and they don't have the absolute most recent issues of journals, but I love it because it has full text articles in handy downloadable formats, and you might be able to find some great stuff if your school has access to it.  

[ShadowSharrow]

TeaDidikai

Cuchullain

Gerald Gardner, Alex Sanders.

How about the Farrar's?

The Farrars Publically published works are not about Wicca ( in it's true BTW context ) but about paganism and witchcraft.
There are some considerible differences to the point that they and those the initated are inclinded to call themselves Farrarian tradition.
Not that 'The Farrars' exist anymore with Steward having passed away and
Janet remarring to become Mrs Bone.

If you want information then go to source in this case public sources about
Gerald Gardner who published books and so is more accessible then Alex Sanders.  

[ShadowSharrow]

http://www.sacred-texts.com/pag/index.htm

Has some good resources.  

[CuAnnan]

Thaedydal

TeaDidikai

Cuchullain

Gerald Gardner, Alex Sanders.

How about the Farrar's?

The Farrars Publically published works are not about Wicca ( in it's true BTW context ) but about paganism and witchcraft.
There are some considerible differences to the point that they and those the initated are inclinded to call themselves Farrarian tradition.
Not that 'The Farrars' exist anymore with Steward having passed away and
Janet remarring to become Mrs Bone.

If you want information then go to source in this case public sources about
Gerald Gardner who published books and so is more accessible then Alex Sanders.

Better than what I was going to say.
Quoting the only Gardnerian in Ireland that I know of "Vague and Vaccuous" and having read some of their stuff, I'm inclined to agree.