Sacred Sites - Contested Rites/Rights: Pagan Engagements with Archaeological Monuments

by Jenny Blain and Robert Wallis

Paganism is held to be the fastest growing 'religion' in Britain today. Pagan identities and constructions of sacredness contest assumptions of a 'closed' past and untouchable heritage, within a socio-politics in which prehistoric archaeology -- the stone circles, burial cairns and rock art of the British Isles -- is itself subject to political and economic threats. Pagans see prehistoric monuments in a living, enchanted landscape of deities, ancestors,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845191307
• ISBN13: 9781845191306
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"