Sarah PikeSarah M. Pike is professor of Comparative Religion at California State University, Chico. She is the author of Earthly Bodies, Magical Selves: Contemporary Pagans and the Search for Community (University of California Press, 2001, New Age and Neopagan Religions in America (Columbia University Press, 2004), and For the Wild: Ritual and Commitment in Radical Eco-Activism (University of California Press, 2017) and co-editor of Reassembling Democracy: Ritual as Cultural Resource (Bloomsbury, 2020) and Ritual and Democracy: Protests, Publics and Performances (Equinox, 2020). She has written numerous articles and book chapters on contemporary Paganism, ritual, the New Age movement, the ancestral skills movement, Burning Man, spiritual dance, California wildfires, environmental activism, climate strikes, and youth culture. Her current research focuses on ritual, spirituality, and ecology in several different contexts, including a project on ritualized relationships with landscapes after wildfires. Read More Read Less