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'''''Persuasions of the Witches' Craft: Ritual Magic in Contemporary England''''' is a study of several Wiccan and ceremonial magic groups that assembled in southern England during the 1980s. It was written by the American anthropologist Tanya M. Luhrmann (1959–) of the University of California, San Diego, and first published in 1989.

The work would be criticized by later academics working in the field of Pagan studies and western esotericism, who charged it with dealing with those it was studying in a derogatory manner.

== Influence==
Writing in her paper within James R. Lewis' edited ''Magical Religion and Modern Witchcraft'' anthology, Siân Reid described Luhrmann's work as "a solid ethnography". Nevertheless, she felt that the study "occasionally rings hollow" because Luhrmann failed to take into account the "subjective motivations for magical practice".{{sfn|Reid|1996|pp=146&ndash;147}}
In her anthropological study of the U.S. Pagan community, ''[[Social:Witching Culture|Witching Culture]]'' (2004), the American academic Sabina Magliocco noted that her work both built upon and departed from Luhrmann's.<ref>Magliocco 2004. p. 100.</ref>

==References==

===Footnotes===
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===Bibliography===
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: {{Cite news|title= Emergent Nature Spirituality: An Examination of the Major Spiritual Contours of the Contemporary Pagan Worldview |last=Carpenter |first=Dennis D. |year= 1996 |journal= Magical Religion and Modern Witchcraft |editors=James R. Lewis |publisher=State University of New York Press |location=Albany |isbn=978-0-7914-2890-0 |pages=35–72 |ref=Car96}}
: {{cite book |title= The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft |last=Hutton |first=Ronald |year= 1999 |publisher= Oxford University Press |location= New York |isbn=978-0-19-820744-3 |nopp=|ref=Hut99}}
: {{cite book |title=Persuasions of the Witch's Craft: Ritual Magic in England |last=Luhrmann |first=Tanya M. |year= 1989 |publisher=Harvard University Press |location=Cambridge, MA. |isbn=978-0-674-66324-4 |ref=Luh89}}
: {{cite book |title= Witching Culture: Folklore and Neo-paganism in America |last=Magliocco |first=Sabina |year= 2004|publisher= University of Pennsylvania Press|location= Philadelphia|isbn=978-0-8122-3803-7 |ref=Mag04}}
: {{cite book |title= Never Again the Burning Times: Paganism Revisited |last=Orion |first=Loretta |year=1995 |publisher= Waveland Press |location=Long Grove, Illinois |isbn=978-0-88133-835-5 |ref=Ori95}}
: {{cite contribution |author=Reid, Siân |contribution=As I Do Will, So Mote It Be: Magic as Metaphor in Neo-Pagan Witchcraft |title=Magical Religion and Modern Witchcraft |publisher=State University of New York Press |location=Albany, New York |pages=141&ndash;167 |ref=harv}}
: {{cite book |title= Enchanted Feminism: The Reclaiming Witches of San Francisco |last=Salomonsen |first=Jone |year= 2002 |publisher= Routledge |location=London |isbn=978-0-415-22393-5 |ref=Sal02}}
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