Vivianne Crowley is an English writer, university lecturer, psychologist, and a High Priestess and teacher of the religion.
Crowley founded the Wicca Study Group in London in 1988, and became secretary of the Pagan Federation the same year. Crowley was described as "very influential in recent developments in Wicca... She has more or less captained the bringing together of the Gardnerian and Alexandrian Traditions through the process of cross-initiation, where a person is initiated into both Traditions". Professor Ronald Hutton also described Crowley as "the closest thing that Britain possessed to an informal successor to Alex Sanders.
As an interfaith coordinator for the Federation, Crowley served as the U.K. coordinator of the Pagan Chaplaincy Services for H.M. Prisons. In 1989, she released her first book Wicca: The Old Religion in the New Age, which became one of the most widely known books on Wicca.
Crowley is a Jungian psychologist who formerly lectured on the psychology of religion at King's College London, University of London. She holds a bachelor's degree and Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of London. She is also an adjunct professor at the Union Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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