Shelley Rabinovitch, Ph.D. teaches religious studies in Ontario Canada, with specialties including Native American religions, Virgin Mary yard-shrines, folk religious practices around the Pimeria Alta (South Arizona/North Sonora),and new religious movements. She is co-author of The Encyclopedia of Modern Witchcraft and Neo-Paganism with James Lewis, and teaches a course on witchcraft and the occult at the University of Ottawa. She describes herself as a "folk-opologist", crossing over between folklore and anthropology of religion.

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