Contemporary Pagan and Native Faith Movements in Europe: Colonialist and Nationalist Impulses

Kathryn Rountree is an anthropologist of contemporary Paganism, and this edited academic volume, published by Berghahn Books, brings together specialists studying modern Pagan and native faith revival movements across different European countries, examining how each movement's identity intersects with nationalism and colonial history in its specific national context. Its strength is genuine cross national comparison built from contributors with direct fieldwork in the country they each cover, rather than one outside observer generalizing across all of Europe. Because it is a multi author collection, depth and approach vary chapter to chapter and reflect each contributor's own fieldwork period, so a claim about one specific country's movement should be checked against that chapter rather than the volume as a uniform whole.