nazgul@apollo.uucp (Kee Hinckley) (10/01/86)
[-: a hex on the line eater :-]
Someone recently posted a query (to talk.religion or thereabouts)
about witchcraft and whether it really was about worshipping the
devil or some such (I really don't remember the details of the
posting). As it happened I got my first issue of the "Utne Reader"
in the mail yesterday, and it has several articles on witchcraft
as it relates to feminism and christianity. They aren't
terribly in-depth, but they do have some information on the subject.
I'm not sure if you can pick up the Utne Reader on a newsstand. It's
a once-every-two-months magazine that contains excerpts from other
magazines, mostly of the "alternative press" type (eg. East West Journal,
The Whole Earth Review). They mix together what they feel are the
most important/interrelated articles and publish them, along with
order information to get the original publication - kind of a Reader's
digest of the alternative press, although a bit more detailed.
If you want to order it, the address is
Utne Reader
PO Box 1974
Marion, Ohio 43305
and it's $18 a year (at 100+ pages/issue).
As a teaser here's the TOC for this issue (#18, Oct/Nov 86).
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Cover Story
Is idealism dead? April McCleary
Dreaming the '60s Michael Ventura, LA Weekly
Our moment in the sun Abbie Hoffman, LA Weekly
The liberated generation grows up Jack WHalen & Richard Flacks, Journal of
Political and Military Sociology
Where have all the idealists gone? Mother Jones and New Age Journal
On becoming comfortable Wallace Shawn
Have you given up? A reader survey SRI International
Articles
Do we need the Democrats? Stanley Aronowitz, The Progressive
The G.O.P gets groovy Bill Kauffman, Reason
Marxism meets Madison Avenue Martin Pedersen, The Nation
The ten best censored stores of '85 Carl Jensen, Project Censored
The great Third World debt caper James S. Henry, The New Republic
From Argentina to Iowa Judith Hurley, Who owes whom newsletter
Is organic agriculture a solution Keith Schneider, Dick Russel & Noel Weyrich,
to the farm crisis? New Age Journal
The new feminist spirituality Karen Lindsey, Ms.
Season of the witch Theadora Jensen, This Magazine
Manifesto Wendell Berry
Departments
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Note to soc.singles readers, they also discuss (and debunk) the 'man shortage'
issue that we have discussed here.
BTW, the 10 best censored stories are:
o The bombing of El Salvador [3000 tons of bombs since 1984]
o The Pentagon's [unregulated] toxic waste dumps
o The birth defect crisis [12% and rising]
o Ten years of slaughter in East Timor [1/3 of the population]
o American Liberty under siege [executive order 12291 and some subsequent
ones which allow the president to nullify 'overly costly' acts of
congress]
o Media merger mania
o The nuclear decapitation study [or why GWEN is suddenly *very* high pri.]
o Cover-up on Star Wars flop [ie. it hasn't worked and most say it won't]
o Government rips off the homeless
o High-tech health hazards [that's us folks]
Ciao,
-kee
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I'm not sure which upsets me more; that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.