{"product_id":"the-triumph-of-the-moon-a-history-of-modern-pagan-witchcraft-9780198827368","title":"The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft","description":"\u003cp\u003ea brilliant history The Sunday Times  makes for riveting reading The Independent  Modern pagan witchcraft is arguably the only fully-formed religion England has given the world  and has now spread across four continents.  This second edition of The Triumph of the Moon extensively revises the first full-scale scholarly study of modern pagan witchcraft. Ronald Hutton examines the nature and development of this religion  and offers a history of attitudes to witchcraft  paganism and magic in British society since 1800. Its pages reveal village cunning folk  Victorian ritual magicians  classicists and archaeologists  leaders of woodcraft and scouting movements  Freemasons  and members of rural secret societies. We also find some of the leading figures of English literature  from the Romantic poets to W. B. Yeats  D. H. Lawrence and Robert Graves  as well as the main personalities who have represented pagan witchcraft to the public world since 1950. Thriller writers like Dennis Wheatley  and films and television programmes  get similar coverage  as does tabloid journalism. The material is by its nature often sensational  and care is taken throughout to distinguish fact from fantasy  in a manner not previously applied to most of the stories involved.  Meticulously researched  The Triumph of the Moon presents an authoritative insight into an aspect of modern cultural history which has attracted sensational publicity but has hitherto been little understood. This edition incorporates new research carried out by the author as well as research by others who have been inspired by this book over the twenty years since its first publication.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45665834631221,"sku":"ByrdShop_0198827369","price":69.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780198827368.jpg?v=1782409327","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-triumph-of-the-moon-a-history-of-modern-pagan-witchcraft-9780198827368","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}