Wagar, Samuel2026-02-062026-02-062005Wagar, S. (2005). An explanation and understanding of Wiccan ritual: Approaching a deviant religious discourse in the modern West. Illumine, 4(1), 26–34. https://doi.org/10.18357/illumine4120051588https://doi.org/10.18357/illumine4120051588https://hdl.handle.net/1828/23208This article applies Foucault's idea of heterotopia and Verter's extension of Bourdieu's cultural capital / religious capital to the foundation rituals of the Wiccan religion. Wicca as a feminist, body-positive, and sexuality positive religion supports challenging alternatives to the cultural status quo and accumulates religious and cultural capital for its members. It can legitimately be seen as a contra-hegemonic religious movement in gender and sexuality.enCC BY-NC 4.0Article