Italian American Stregheria and Wicca: Ethnic Ambivalence in American Neopaganism

Modern Paganism in World Cultures: Comparative Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 55-86

  Magliocco, Sabina ^a  

^a Multicultural Education   (United States)

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