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Leo Ruickbie is a British historian and sociologist of religion, specializing in exceptional experiences, paranormal beliefs, magic, witchcraft and Wicca. He is the author of several books, beginning with Witchcraft Out of the Shadows, a 2004 publication outlining the history of witchcraft from ancient Greece until the modern day. Ruickbie was born in Scotland and took a master's degree in Sociology and Religion at the University of Lancaster. He then studied at King's College London and was an awarded a PhD for his thesis entitled The Re-Enchanters: Theorising Re-Enchantment and Testing for its Presence in Modern Witchcraft. On Samhain 2007 he launched Open Source Wicca, a project inspired by the open-source software movement aimed at making the founding texts of Wicca more readily availa

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  • Leo Ruickbie is a British historian and sociologist of religion, specializing in exceptional experiences, paranormal beliefs, magic, witchcraft and Wicca. He is the author of several books, beginning with Witchcraft Out of the Shadows, a 2004 publication outlining the history of witchcraft from ancient Greece until the modern day. Ruickbie was born in Scotland and took a master's degree in Sociology and Religion at the University of Lancaster. He then studied at King's College London and was an awarded a PhD for his thesis entitled The Re-Enchanters: Theorising Re-Enchantment and Testing for its Presence in Modern Witchcraft. On Samhain 2007 he launched Open Source Wicca, a project inspired by the open-source software movement aimed at making the founding texts of Wicca more readily available by releasing them under a Creative Commons licence. In 2008 and 2009 he exhibited on the subject of witchcraft in France. He is also a council member of the Society for Psychical Research, a professional member of the Parapsychological Association, the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism, is on the committee of the Gesellschaft für Anomalistik. In 2021, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and in 2022 a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute. He is the current editor of the Magazine of the Society for Psychical Research. (en)
  • Leo Ruickbie, né en Écosse, est un historien et sociologue de la magie, la sorcellerie et la Wicca. Il est l'auteur de Witchcraft Out of the Shadows, une publication 2004 décrivant l'histoire de sorcellerie de la Grèce antique jusqu'à nos jours, et Faustus: The Life and Times of a Renaissance Magician. (fr)
  • レオ・ルイックビー(Leo Ruickbie)は、はイギリスの歴史家、宗教社会学者であり、超常現象、魔術、ウィッチクラフト、ウイッカを専門としている。彼は、古代ギリシアから現代までのウィッチクラフトの歴史を概説した2004年の出版物である『Witchcraft Out of the Shadows』をはじめ、いくつかの本の著者である。ルイックビーはスコットランドで生まれ、ランカスター大学で社会学と宗教学の修士号を取得した。 (ja)
  • Leo Ruickbie é um historiador e sociólogo especializado em temas como bruxaria, mágica e Wicca. (pt)
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  • Leo Ruickbie, né en Écosse, est un historien et sociologue de la magie, la sorcellerie et la Wicca. Il est l'auteur de Witchcraft Out of the Shadows, une publication 2004 décrivant l'histoire de sorcellerie de la Grèce antique jusqu'à nos jours, et Faustus: The Life and Times of a Renaissance Magician. (fr)
  • レオ・ルイックビー(Leo Ruickbie)は、はイギリスの歴史家、宗教社会学者であり、超常現象、魔術、ウィッチクラフト、ウイッカを専門としている。彼は、古代ギリシアから現代までのウィッチクラフトの歴史を概説した2004年の出版物である『Witchcraft Out of the Shadows』をはじめ、いくつかの本の著者である。ルイックビーはスコットランドで生まれ、ランカスター大学で社会学と宗教学の修士号を取得した。 (ja)
  • Leo Ruickbie é um historiador e sociólogo especializado em temas como bruxaria, mágica e Wicca. (pt)
  • Leo Ruickbie is a British historian and sociologist of religion, specializing in exceptional experiences, paranormal beliefs, magic, witchcraft and Wicca. He is the author of several books, beginning with Witchcraft Out of the Shadows, a 2004 publication outlining the history of witchcraft from ancient Greece until the modern day. Ruickbie was born in Scotland and took a master's degree in Sociology and Religion at the University of Lancaster. He then studied at King's College London and was an awarded a PhD for his thesis entitled The Re-Enchanters: Theorising Re-Enchantment and Testing for its Presence in Modern Witchcraft. On Samhain 2007 he launched Open Source Wicca, a project inspired by the open-source software movement aimed at making the founding texts of Wicca more readily availa (en)
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