Magic in the Making

dc.contributor.authorLaPorte, Jeffrey
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-17T17:56:58Z
dc.date.available2018-05-17T17:56:58Z
dc.date.issued2018-05
dc.description.abstractIn this thesis I conducted a study of legitimization within a religious minority community in Middle and East Tennessee, namely that of Neo-Pagans. In my field-work I noted that Neo-Pagans seemed to have an issue in regard to legitimacy, that they did not feel that their tradition was treated as a real religion by wider society. To explore this, I compared the way Neo-Pagans legitimate their religion with the way religious legitimization is typically constructed in our society to find the potential source of discrepancies. In this thesis I argue that much of the reason that Neo-Paganism is viewed as illegitimate stems from its practice of magic which promotes a different paradigm for the exchange of material goods and religious power then the one held by most of society in Middle and East Tennessee.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://jewlscholar.mtsu.edu/xmlui/handle/mtsu/5614
dc.publisherUniversity Honors College, Middle Tennessee State Universityen_US
dc.subjectmagicen_US
dc.subjectneo-paganen_US
dc.subjectlegitimacyen_US
dc.subjectmaterialityen_US
dc.subjectreligionen_US
dc.subjectTennesseeen_US
dc.titleMagic in the Makingen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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