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A general reader coming to the field for the first time could not hope for a better primer. It is a work at once objective and personal, scholarly and accessible, and broad in its focus, well capturing the intensity of individual places and moments. <br>-Ronald Hutton, University of Bristol <br> Written with an insider's sensibility and an outsider's scholarly eye, this book is bound to appeal to a wide audience, from those who are fascinated by the early religious history of Europe and its fate, to those who describe their own spirituality as pagan. It is a rich, substantive book, full of interesting detail, and written in a clear, engaging and accessible style. <br>-Tanya Luhrmann, University of California, San Diego <br> The authors set for themselves a formidable task: to 'describe the hidden history of Europe, the persistence of its native religion in various forms from ancient times right up to present day.' Arguing that the European native religious tradition 'has continued to exist and even to flourish more or less openly in the present day, when it is undergoing an new restoration, ' they propose to survey a multitude of European cultures and rather dissimilar 'pagan' religions. <br>- Choice <br> This ambitious work endeavors to demonstrate how the indigenous spiritual traditions of Europe were not wiped out by various invaders but in fact constitute a kind of hidden history of Europe. . . . this work will satisfy those interested in a background for New Age spirituality. <br>- Library Journal <br> It gives the general reader a...reliable picture of the history of the pagan cults and the complex development of the Christianization process. It offers an interesting synthesis ofthe vicissitudes of the uprooting of heathen thought and its success or failure; it is therefore a volume anyone probing into Europe's religious past will enjoy reading. <br>- History of Religions <br>

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Prudence Jones is a former president of the Pagan Federation and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She is the co-editor of Voices from the Circle: the Heritage of Western Paganism (1990) and the author of Creative Astrology (2000). Nigel Pennick is a writer, illustrator and lecturer on ancient and modern mysteries. His publications include The Pagan Source Book (1992) and Sacred Geometry (1994)

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