CONTRIBUTORS

Peg Aloi has an MFA in English and currently teaches in the Department of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College, and at the Massachusetts College of Art. Her most recent book, The New Generation Witches: Teenage Witchcraft in Contemporary Culture (2007 Ashgate Press), was co-edited with Hannah Johnston, with whom she is currently collaborating on two more books: The Celluloid Bough: Cinema in the Wake of the Occult Revival and The Glass Cauldron: A History of Witches on Television. Peg is also a fi lm critic for the Boston Phoenix and an award-winning poet.

Helen A. Berger, professor of sociology at West Chester University, is the author of three books: A Community of Witches; Voices from the Pagan Census (with Leach and Shaffer); Teenage Witches (with Douglas Ezzy), and editor of Magic and Witchcraft: Contemporary North America. She is currently engaged in a community study of the religious and spiritual life of Asheville, NC.

Jenny Blain is Senior Lecturer in Applied Social Sciences at Sheffi eld Hallam University. Recent publications on shamanism, seidr, Heathenry and paganisms include Nine Worlds of Seid-Magic (Routledge 2002), Researching Paganisms (Blain, Ezzy & Harvey, Altamira 2004) and numerous articles and chapters, including ‘Now many of those things are shown to me which I was denied before’: Seidr, shamanism and journeying, past and present, for Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses in 2005. Her book with Robert Wallis on Sacred Sites Contested Rites/Rights was published by Sussex Academic Press in 2007.

Henrik Bogdan, Ph.D., Department of Religious Studies and Theology, University of Gothenburg, is the author of Western Esotericism and Rituals of Initiation (SUNY, 2007) and numerous articles on various aspects of his three main areas of research: Western esotericism, New Religious Movements, and Masonic Initiatory Societies. He is currently co- editing a number of works, including Western Esotericism in Scandinavia with Olav Hammer and The Brill Handbook of Contemporary Freemasonry with Jan, A.M. Snoek. 628 contributors

Chas S. Clifton is the editor of The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies. His most recent book is Her Hidden Children: The Rise of Wicca and Paganism in America (AltaMira Press, 2006). He lives in southern Colorado and teaches at Colorado State University-Pueblo.

Carole M. Cusack is Senior Lecturer and Chair of the Department of Studies in Religion at the University of Sydney. She trained as a medi- evalist and her doctorate was published as Conversion Among the Germanic Peoples (Cassell, 1998). She has since specialised in contemporary religion, publishing on pilgrimage and tourism, the pagan revival, new religious movements and the interface between religion and politics.

Nevill Drury was born in Hastings, England in 1947 and has lived in Australia for most of his life. A former editor and book-publisher, he has studied Western magic since the 1970s. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Newcastle, Australia, in 2008 and is the author of several internationally published titles on shamanism and the Western esoteric tradition. His publications include Magic and Witchcraft: from Shamanism to the Technopagans (2003) and The New Age: the History of a Movement (winner of a Silver Award in ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year Awards, New York 2004). His most recent work, Homage to Pan: Rosaleen Norton and the Left-Hand Path, will be published in 2009.

Douglas Ezzy, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Head of Discipline at the University of Tasmania. His research is driven by a fas- cination with how people make meaningful and dignifi ed lives. His books include Qualitative Research Methods (1999) with Pranee Liamputtong, Narrating Unemployment (2001), Qualitative Analysis (2002), and Teenage Witches (2007) with Helen Berger (West Chester University).

Mattais Gardell is Associate Professor (docent) in the History of Religions, Stockholm University, Sweden. His publications include In the Name of Elijah Muhammad: Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam (Duke University Press, 1996), Rasrisk. Rastister, separatister och amerikanska kulturkonfl ikter (Stockholm: Natur & Kultur, 2003 [1998]), and Gods of the Blood: The Pagan Revival and White Separatism (Duke University Press, 2003).

Ann-Marie Gallagher is a Senior Lecturer in Combined Honours at the University of Central Lancashire and has been a practising witch for over twenty years. Her key research interests are history, equality issues