Angela Puca

Angela Puca is an Italian academic and scholar of religion whose work specialises in magic, witchcraft, paganism, esotericism and shamanism. Since 2016, she has lectured at Leeds Trinity University Pagan Religions in Five Minutes (co-editor, Equinox)

Articles and chapters "Magic as a Contested Concept in the Study of Religion", in Contested Concepts in the Study of Religion (2023) "The Impact of Social Media on Italian Shamanism and Folk Magic", Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religion (2020) "Can There Be Shamanism in the Western World?", Journal of the International Society for Academic Research on Shamanism (2022) "Scientism and Post-Truth: Two Contradictory Paradigms Underlying Contemporary Shamanism", JBASR (2018) "Witch and Shaman: Discourse Analysis of the Use of Indigenizing Terms in Italy", International Journal for the Study of New Religions (2018) "The Tradition of Segnature: Underground Indigenous Practices in Italy", Journal of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions (2019) These are available, for free, on her Academia.edu page .