Vegan Witchcraft

Contemporary Magical Practice and Multispecies Social Change.
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-64974-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Animals, Society and the Environment

Vegan Witchcraft is the first book to blend theories of animal rights, feminism, and modern witchcraft in pursuit of total liberation.

Perhaps the most foundational of all ethics in modern witchcraft is the creed: Do no harm. Despite this, multi-species suffering persists in non-vegan witchcraft. Vegan Witchcraft examines this intriguing conflict, unpacking the role of Nonhuman Animals in modern witchcraft from a vegan feminist perspective to illuminate inequalities that persist in alternative spiritual practices in the West. Recognising Nonhuman Animals as comrades instead of consumables, vegan witchcraft confronts the harm imposed on nature, humans, and other animals and identifies witchery as a powerful conduit for social change that draws its energy from plant-based foods, multispecies solidarity, and feminine power. The book critically analyses popular witchcraft pathways in Britain and America to interrogate the many ways in which Nonhuman Animals are overlooked, objectified, or exploited, highlighting theological inconsistencies and missed opportunities that might be overcome to create a stronger practice for women and their communities. It reimagines witchcraft practice and lore to manifest justice and compassion for fellow humans, Nonhuman Animals, and nature. Veganism is advanced as a magical practice of self-care, community responsibility, conscious consumption, societal transformation, and environmental protection. The book calls for the redirection of the modern witch's path toward a just world and away from the systematic symbolic and material exploitation of Nonhuman Animals that permeates witchcraft today.

This book will be essential reading for those interested in critical animal studies, animal rights, ecofeminism, vegan religious studies, environmental philosophy and witchcraft.

Zielgruppe

Academic, General, and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wrenn, Corey Lee

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Tier- und Umweltschutz
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Alternative Glaubensformen Hexerei und Zauberei
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Introduction to Vegan Witchdraft 2: Animal Familiars 3: Green Witchcraft 4: Kitchen Witchery 5: Vegan Sabbats and Esbats 6: Spell Work for a Vegan World 7. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Corey Lee Wrenn is Senior Lecturer of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Kent, UK, and co-director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Political Movements. She is the co-founder of the International Association of Vegan Sociologists, a member of The Vegan Society’s Research Advisory Committee and is the founder of the Vegan Feminist Network, an academic-activist project engaging intersectional social justice praxis. She is the author of A Rational Approach to Animal Rights: Extensions in Abolitionist Theory (2016), Piecemeal Protest: Animal Rights in the Age of Nonprofits (2019), and Animals in Irish Society (2021).