Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
A Note on Names

1. "That Dose of Unreality": An Introduction to Lothlorien Nature Sanctuary
2. "Dream Flowers": Fiction and Utopian Imagination in Neo-Paganism and Alternative Communities
3. Faerie and Avalon: Reimagining Nature
4. "A Loose-Knit Anarchy": Reimagining Organization
5. "The Land of Misfit Toys": Reimagining Community and Freedom
6. "Something Mystical and Fine": Reimagining Ritual and Spiritual Experience
7. "A Gypsy Community": Cycling, Learning, and Moving On
8. "A Spontaneous Social Experiment"

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Promotional Information

Utopian imagination and community experiments as forces for change

About the Author

Lucinda Carspecken is Adjunct Professor in Qualitative Research Methods and Anthropology at Indiana University Bloomington.

Reviews

"This book advances knowledge... in various areas of current critical and popular debate and will be of interest to scholars... as well as to a diverse popular readership." Graham Harvey, author of Contemporary Paganism "A significant contribution to the study of intentional communities." -- Sarah M. Pike, author of New Age and Neo-pagan Religions in America "This is the only study to date of a specifically neo-pagan community and therefore is a pioneering work." Sabina Magliocco, author of Neo-Pagan Art and Altars