Friend with HR for 20 years and with MR for 10 years,
Dr. Shelley Rabinovitch holds a PhD from the University of Ottawa in Religious Studies, and is a cultural anthropologist whose work focuses on ritual studies, the role of women in religion, and alternative spiritualities. Her MA at Carleton University was Canada's first ethnographic study of Canadian witches, Wiccans, and Pagans from coast to coast to coast.
Dr. Rabinovitch teaches (among other courses) a class on "Magic, Witchcraft, and Occult Phenomenon" at the University of Ottawa. She has been a past guest of honour at Gaia Gathering, Canada's National Pagan Conference and has written two books on Neo-Paganism and Wicca: The Encyclopedia of Modern Witchcraft and Neo-Paganism and An Ye Harm None: Magical Ethics and Modern Morality.
Shes the co-founding Vice President of the Ottawa Science Fiction Society and
founder of the Ottawa area branch of the Society for Creative Anachronism where she is known as Dame TSivia bas Tamara v'Amberview, O.L., O.P., Baroness.
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