by Liz Pilley.
Price: £7.49
Review by Marianne
I have just read
"Thoughtful Pagan Living" by Liz Pilley. She describes the book as a
follow on from her previous one "Solitary Eclectic Witchcraft" but I
have found that you don't need to read her first book in order to benefit from
this one.
The book is divided
into five chapters. These are Labels and Personal Identity, Pagan
History, Ethics and Morality, Magic and Family.
In each chapter the
author raises a series of issues and explains her personal
perspective. She says herself that the book doesn't give definitive
answers but that it raises the issues so that you can think more deeply
about them. It also includes exercises at the end of some of the chapters to
aid focus in that thinking.
I think that this would
be a good book to offer to someone with lots of questions. It is an easy book
to read but it is also the sort of book that you might like to dip in and
out of as well, depending on what issues were current in your life at the time.
It maybe useful to someone who is just starting out on a Pagan path or for
someone who has a particular interest in one of the subjects raised in the
book.
I found her chapter on
Ethics and Morality especially interesting. She looks
at the various world religion views of ethics and morality and
discusses how this might impact on Modern Paganism. I liked the way she
focused her thinking here and although she was not able to answer the points
she raised, her views seemed well researched and thought through.
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