Magic in the Making
dc.contributor.author | LaPorte, Jeffrey | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-05-17T17:56:58Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-05-17T17:56:58Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-05 | |
dc.description.abstract | In 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.uri | http://jewlscholar.mtsu.edu/xmlui/handle/mtsu/5614 | |
dc.publisher | University Honors College, Middle Tennessee State University | en_US |
dc.subject | magic | en_US |
dc.subject | neo-pagan | en_US |
dc.subject | legitimacy | en_US |
dc.subject | materiality | en_US |
dc.subject | religion | en_US |
dc.subject | Tennessee | en_US |
dc.title | Magic in the Making | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |