Iron Mountain: A Journal of Magical Religion, [v.1, no.1], Summer, 1984
Scope and Contents
Iron Mountain was a short-lived journal published by Chas S. Clifton's Artemisa Press. Only four issues were published between 1984 and 1986 which constituted volume one. This publication was influential in the creation of the first peer-reviewed journal The Pomegranate published by Fritz Muntean
Dates
- Publication: 1984
Creator
- Artemisia Press (Colorado Springs, Colo.) (Publisher, Organization)
- Clifton, Chas S. (Editor of compilation, Person)
- Currier-Clifton, Mary (Editor of compilation, Person)
- Bonewits, Isaac, 1949-2010 (Editor of compilation, Person)
- Bruchac, Joseph, 1942- (Author, Person)
- Clifton, Chas S. (Interviewer, Person)
- Currier-Clifton, Mary (Interviewer, Person)
- McCarthy, Jim (Interviewee, Person)
- Vye, John (Author, Person)
- Levering, Donald, 1949- (Author, Person)
- Levering, Donald, 1949- (Author, Person)
- Bruchac, Joseph, 1942- (Person)
- Kelly, Aidan A. (Author, Person)
- Rainey, Richard (Author, Person)
- Rubi, Kathryn (Author, Person)
- Clifton, Chas S. (Author, Person)
- Forfreedom, Ann (Author, Person)
- Bonewits, Isaac, 1949-2010 (Author, Person)
- Farrar, Janet (Author, Person)
- Farrar, Stewart (Author, Person)
- Kirkpatrick, R. George (Robert George), 1943- (Author, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Extent
1 Electronic Records (52 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Production credits
Editors, Chas S. Clifton, Mary Currier-Clifton; Associate editor, Isaac Bonewits; Design and Production, Chas S. Clifton, Paul Musick with special thanks to John Graham
Contents
On the Slopes of Iron Mountain (p.2)
Spinning the Medicine Wheel / Joseph Bruchac (p.3-9)
High School Magic: An Interview with Religious Consultant Jim McCarthy / Chas Clifton and Mary Clifton (p.10-14)
Notes on Ritual Drumming / John Vye (p.15-16)
Inventing Witchcraft / Aidan Kelley (p.19-29)
Pagan Renaissance and Wiccan Witchcraft in Industrial Society / George Kirkpatrick, Kathryn Rubi, and Rich Rainey (p.31-38)
‘Pagan Renaissance’ Responses:
Asking the Wrong Questions / Chas Clifton (p.38-40)
A Good Survey Turned to Trash / Ann Forfreedom (p.40-41)
Quibbles with Kirkpatrick / Isaac Bonewits (p.41-42)
Myth, Ritual and Symbolism / excerpts from The Witches' Way by Janet Farrar and Stewart Farrar (p.43-48)
Poetry
Remedy for Drought / poem by Donald Levering (p.17)
The Man Who Wanted to be an Owl / poem by Joseph Bruchac (p.18)
Photography
Religious consultant Jim McCarthy with bones of squirrels killed by teenager "Satanists" and kris-style ritual dagger / photographed by Chas S, Clifton (p.10)
Typical altar of Neopagan Gardnerian Witchcraft priest and priestess / photographer by Tom Shanahan (p.19)
Statue of Diana in Sutro Park, San Francisco / photograph by Chas S. Clifton (p.30)
Book Reviews by Chas Clifton (p.49-50)
Earth Power by Scott Cunningham
Practical Color Magick by Ray Buckland
The Magician by Gini Graham Scott
- Bear Tribe Medicine Society
- Book reviews
- Buckland, Raymond -- Reviews
- Camp Kinder Ring Circle Lodge
- Control (Psychology) -- Poetry
- Cunningham, Scott, 1956-1993 -- Reviews
- Demographic surveys
- Demographic surveys -- United States
- Diana (Roman deity) -- Art
- Gardnerian (Wiccan sect)
- Gardnerian (Wiccan sect) -- History
- High school students -- Colorado -- Denver
- High school students -- Occult aspects
- Indians of North America -- New York (State) -- Rites and ceremonies
- Interviews
- Kirkpatrick, R. George (Robert George), 1943-
- McCarthy, Jim -- Interviews
- Medicine Wheel Gathering
- Medicine wheels
- Myth -- Religious aspects -- Wicca
- Neopaganism -- United States
- Parasociology
- Participant observation
- Poetry
- Porter's licorice-root -- Poetry
- Ritual drumming
- Satan (Abrahamic deity) -- In popular culture
- Satanic panic
- Satanism -- United States -- Public opinion
- Scott, Gini Graham -- Reviews
- Symbolism -- Religious aspects -- Wicca
- Wicca -- United States
- Witchcraft -- United States
- Witches -- United States
Repository Details
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