Leo Ruickbie
Auteur de Faustus: The Life and Times of a Renaissance Magician
A propos de l'auteur
Leo Ruickbie is the founder and director of WICA, the Witchcraft information Centre & Archive (www.Witchcraftinfo.info), an educational and research-oriented website specializing in witchcraft and Wicca.
Œuvres de Leo Ruickbie
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- Nom canonique
- Ruickbie, Leo
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Études
- King's College, London
- Courte biographie
- Dr Leo Ruickbie is an historian and sociologist of magic, witchcraft and Wicca. He is the author of Witchcraft Out of the Shadows, a 2004 publication outlining the history of witchcraft from ancient Greece until the modern day. Ruickbie was born in Scotland and took a Master's degree in Sociology and Religion at the University of Lancaster. He then studied at King's College London and was an awarded a PhD for his thesis entitled The Re-Enchanters: Theorising Re-Enchantment and Testing for its Presence in Modern Witchcraft. On Samhain 2007 he launched Open Source Wicca, a project inspired by the Open Source software movement aimed at making the founding texts of Wicca more readily available by releasing them under a Creative Commons licence. In 2008 and 2009 he exhibited on the subject of witchcraft in France.
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- Œuvres
- 9
- Membres
- 105
- Popularité
- #183,191
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 14
- Langues
- 1
- Favoris
- 1