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Post by myriadofcolors on Jun 24, 2015 9:09:22 GMT -6
Sorry for bringing this up topic up again, but has anyone heard anything about the book Brigid by Courtney Weber? It looks really good, chock full of academic sources, but I'm considerably broke. (June was a birthday month.) Anyone read it?
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wiintertides
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Post by wiintertides on Jun 24, 2015 9:39:41 GMT -6
I actually saw that book at Chapters yesterday and was wondering the same thing
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Post by Allec on Jun 24, 2015 10:04:24 GMT -6
I have not read it, but it raises a few red flags. Namely that the author calls Brighid a "Celtic" goddess when she's specifically a Gaelic goddess.
It could be useful, though.
Mer, did the book have a good bibliography? That's what I usually look for/at.
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Post by myriadofcolors on Jun 24, 2015 10:27:50 GMT -6
Quite a few academic sources, but I did see a review on Amazon that she didn't cite her sources in the text, which is a little weird. But it does have meditation practices and things like that, which is interesting to me.
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cass
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Post by cass on Jul 1, 2015 22:13:35 GMT -6
Sorry for bringing this up topic up again, but has anyone heard anything about the book Brigid by Courtney Weber? It looks really good, chock full of academic sources, but I'm considerably broke. (June was a birthday month.) Anyone read it? i found an interview with the author about the book on a brigid blog here which might give an insight into where the author is coming at this from. i suppose i'm interested to see what she's written, and it looks like she's done a great deal of research. it doesn't seem like it's gonna be a kind of academic recon book, but that might not necessarily be a bad thing? if i had the money i'd give it a shot, but i doubt any of the libraries around here will carry it |
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Post by myriadofcolors on Jul 2, 2015 10:05:14 GMT -6
I bought it (I may need to stop treating my self) and it's a little academic but mostly personal and a little "woowoo." It does have a lot of good information, with quite a few different sides of Brighid, and meditations and rituals, and the author's own experiences with her. I enjoy it, actually, I love fluff (baaaaad Em) but with alot of academic stuff too. That being said, I'm a little leery about the information, and I don't quite agree with her on some of the parts (Brighid as an Earth Goddess? Her reasoning makes sense, but I'm not sure I can quite believe it.), but I still think it's worthwhile, for me at least.
As far as the concern about her being a Celtic Goddess and not a purely Gaelic one, she also seems to be a soft polytheist and assumes that Brighid is prominent in Wales, England, Scotland, and other places but under different names.
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