Presenter Biography:

Shelley Rabinovitch is a sessional lecturer at the University of Ottawa in both Religious Studies and Women's Studies, where she teaches the hugely-popular "Magic, Witchcraft and Occult Phenomenon" course to hundreds of undergraduates. She has written numerous articles in the academic press on Neo-Paganism, as well as being senior editor of "The Encyclopedia of Modern Witchcraft and Neo-Paganism" (with Jim Lewis, Citadel Press) and co-author with Meredith MacDonald, of "An Ye Harm None: Magical Morality and Modern Ethics" (Citadel Press 2004). She is currently the senior editor of a 3 volume collection on Gods and Goddesses across time and location for ABC-CLIO, which should be out in 2007.

She researches and writes about modern Neo-Paganism, particularly from a Wiccan standpoint, and travelled across Canada in 1991 interviewing self-identified Asatrur, Druids, and Witches for her M.A. thesis.

Speaker Topic:

Ethics from a Pagan Point of View

What are Pagan Ethics? Is there such a thing? And how does one determine what is ethical when there's no big book ("bible") as an official "how to live" textbook? Shelley Rabinovitch, co-author of "An Ye Harm None: Magical Morality and Modern Ethics" discusses how to walk the walk and talk the talk in a Pagan way.