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]Wicca differs from mainstream notions of religion. Traditionally, it's more of a religious order with no laity, an initiatory pagan priesthood that maintains a body of knowledge and rites that is kept intact and handed down from initiate to initiate. It also differs in that it's not an orthodoxy but an orthopraxy.
Eclectic practices influenced by Wicca tend to be orthodox ("I'm a Wiccan because I believe ___") and tend to differ from one to the other as they're most often individual practices unique to the person.
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Triumph of the Moon by Ronald Hutton
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Drawing Down the Moon, by Margot Adler (the late NPR journalist)
This book is like an unofficial follow-up to Adler's DDTM:
Voices from the Pagan Census: A National Survey of Witches and Neo-Pagans in the United States, by Helen A. Berger
Books from the mid-20th century:
Witchcraft Today by Gerald Gardner
The Meaning of Witchcraft by Gerald Gardner