Wicca and witchcraft are popping up in pop culture these days, from teenage witches on TikTok to a Marvel comic superhero called Wiccan. It has even led The New York Times to ask: “When did everyone ...

Britain’s Wicca Man tells the extraordinary story of Britain's fastest growing religious group - Wicca - and of its creator, an eccentric Englishman called Gerald Gardner. Historian and leading expert ...

Broomsticks, cauldrons and pointy hats often come to mind when someone says the word "witch." Around Halloween and spooky season, famous characters and specific imagery surfaces when witches are ...

Witches are often depicted as villains in fairy tales, or exercisers of the satanic occult in scary movies. But for practitioners of modern witchcraft, it is spiritual, empowering, and magical.

Helen A. Berger has previously received funding from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, the Association for the Sociology of Religion, and West Chester University. Wicca, an alternative ...