ecosophia | Magic Monday

Midnight is just a few minutes away, and so it's time to launch a new Magic Monday. Ask me anything about occultism, and with certain exceptions, any question received by midnight Monday Eastern time will get an answer. Please note: Any question or comment received after then will not get an answer, and in fact will just be deleted. If you're in a hurry, or suspect you may be the 143,916th person to ask a question, please check out the very rough version 1.1 of The Magic Monday FAQ here. Also: I will not be putting through or answering any more questions about practicing magic around children. I've answered those in simple declarative sentences in the FAQ. If you read the FAQ and don't think your question has been answered, read it again. If that doesn't help, consider remedial reading classes; yes, it really is as simple and straightforward as the FAQ says. And further: I'm going to draw a line, a hard one, under questions involving the evocation of spirits. Down the road a bit I'll be doing a post on the blog about why that's far less important than it's been made to look, and how the way of occult initiation takes a radically different path; in the meantime, I'm tired of fielding repetitive questions from people (or, quite possibly, one person using many sock puppets) that rotate gyroscopically around that one habit.

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Huh, that's really interesting, I hadn't connected the godhar with protestant churches, and I was unaware of the Eigenkirchen - that's certainly a useful bit of comparative evidence with the Icelandic godhar!

And your last point hits the nail of what was underlying my line of questioning right on the head: I'm trying to more carefully separate baby from bathwater when it comes to learning from religious models and approaches that have been successful, with a specific focus on what might be different for us Americans than our European forebears.

Thanks again!
Jeff

If I may suggest something here --

Check out what African-American religious groups have been doing over the last two centuries. Every tiny little African-American church has its own storefront space, its own lively community, and its own system of training and ordaining clergy. The Spiritual churches, which took elements of hoodoo and Spiritualism and created something really quite interesting with them, is one I've read about in some detail. It's a great example of how small religious groups can function well in American society.

Thanks very much for this! You've partially pre-empted my question for next week, which was going to be about successful American niche spiritual movements.

You don't happen to have any authors or titles to hand on any of these, do you?

Cheers,
Jeff

You might try Jason Berry's The Spirit of Blackhawk: a Mystery of Africans and Indians for starters, and also Carolyn Morrow Long's Spiritual Merchants if you're not up to speed on the hoodoo tradition and its evolution through time.

Thanks very much for these! So far, my only knowledge of the history of hoodoo comes from your posts on the topic, so both sound very helpful.

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