A review by laurareads87
World Druidry: A Globalizing Path of Nature Spirituality by Larisa A White

informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

World Druidry details the results of the World Druidry Survey conducted by the author in 2018-2020. It represents the responses of 725 Druids from 34 different countries, both solitaries and members of (sometimes multiple) orders and groups, and covers themes including how druids in different climates and ecosystems celebrate solstices and equinoxes, the wide range of theological frameworks Druids embrace, the main influences on druids' paths (ex. books, curricula, time in nature), and more. White clearly explains the responses druids offered to the many survey questions, noting variations along lines like order membership, time spent on a druid path, and geographical location. She addresses the difficulty of defining 'druid' and presents common threads in world druidry without oversimplifying or reducing druidry's diversity. White also clearly explains her methodology and methods in comprehensible terms (even for me, someone who has never completed any kind of quantitative research) and situates her study in relation to the existing research published on Druidry and on contemporary druids. As a Druid, I was fascinated to learn about what the World Druidry Survey determined characterized the order I belong to, and I even found some new ideas for my practice in the words of other druids from around the world. I highly recommend this book not only to Druids ourselves, but to anyone interested in what Druidry looks like today.