ABSTRACT
So far this book has focused primarily on witchcraft as an historic practice, one defined as a crime and studied by historians of persecution and deviance. But in this chapter on modernity we will examine notions of witchcraft today through two different lenses: as a religion, and as a matter of religious concern. Whilst some people today are happy to self-identify as witches, others are equally comfortable as witch-hunters, and both are actuated by spiritual motives that have both traditional and new features.
