Recently, modern witchcraft has been on the rise. I am interested to hear some discussion and discourse from your perspective, on any aspect of modern witchcraft. Myself, I try to be respectful of most religions. That said, I have always been a little annoyed by anyone who believes they can, for example, control the weather or read peoples minds, which seems to be the case in this article, and in several witchcraft-related memes and stuff I've seen floating around. In addition, I think the whole idea of witchcraft as an opposition to the status quo is very much a bourgeois/liberal mindset. Instead of using affirmative action to actually work for change, it's turning to faith and a belief in the occult in order to solve your issues. It seems to me to be almost entirely composed of young, upper-middle class white women that have not needed to struggle or known the struggle of other classes. In essence, a liberal reaction to the people in power. Any thoughts? Willing to change my mind.
Is there an equivalent to the current movement in, say, the 1920s? When the proletarian movement was particularly strong in america and the rest of the world. Additionally there was a pretty strong wave in the 70s everywhere but america, such as Italy, Ireland and south america. I'm curious if there were any movements like this in the time leading up to then. Perhaps the occultism of the late 19th century, with the whole seances and such?
There was some push in the 1920s and 1930s about a revival of a pre-Christian witch cult that was purported to have been stamped out by the witch trials of the 17th century - which contemporaneously as described here. Most likely this wasn't the case, but there was apparently a growing interest in witchcraft and folklore at the time.
The 60s and 70s had a renewed interest in druidism and neopaganism as well and was the birth of modern Wicca as we understand it (named after Diana or something like that, I can't remember exactly).