Queer Magic

TOMAS PROWER (Las Vegas, NV) has lived and worked in Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, Tijuana, Reno, Long Beach, and Los Angeles. He is fluent in English, French, and several dialects of Spanish. He has previously served as the youth coordinator of Bent-Con, an LGBT+ pop-culture festival, and as the cultural liaison between France, the United States, and the South American member states of Mercosur.

CONTENTS

Embarkation 1

Part 1: Greater Middle East 7
1: Cradles of Civilization 9
2: Judaism 23
3: Islam 33
4: Greater Middle Eastern Magical Community 45



Part 2: Sub-Saharan Africa & Lands of the African Diaspora 53
5: Sub-Saharan Africa 55
6: Lands of the African Diaspora 71
7: Sub-Saharan African & Diasporic Magical Community 85



Part 3: Europe 91
8: Ancient Greece & Rome 93
9: Pagan Europe 109
10: Christianity 123
11: European Magical Community 135



Part 4: The Indian Subcontinent 141
12: Hinduism 143
13: Buddhism 153
14: Indian Subcontinental Magical Community 161



Part 5: East Asia 167
15: China 169
16: Japan 185
17: Shamanism 197
18: East Asian Magical Community 205



Part 6: Oceania 211
19: Aboriginal Australia 213
20: Polynesia 219
21: Oceanic Magical Community 231



Part 7: The Americas 233
22: Latin America 235
23: Native North America 247
24: American Magical Community 257



DEBARKATION 261

BIBLIOGRAPHY 263