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| | Paganism & Neo - Paganism |
 | | In simplest terms - Paganism is a religion of place, or a native religion, for example the Native American's religion is Pagan, Hinduism is a form of Paganism. | | | Pagans are usually polytheistic (believing in more than one god), and they usually believe in immanance, or the concept of divinity residing in all things. | | | Paganism is a religion of nature, in other words Pagans revere Nature. |
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http://www.crystalinks.com/paganism.html
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| | Press Resources Page 3 |
| | Pagan religions are characterized by a belief in the interconnection of all life, personal autonomy, and immanent divinities. | | | Pagan religions include but are not limited to Ásatrú (Norse Paganism), the Church of All Worlds, Druidism, and Wicca. | | | Pagan religions are often nature-centered and supportive of gender equity. |
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http://www.bloomington.in.us/~pen/pressres3.html
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| | Paganism- the religion of the 21st Century? |
| | "Paganism must be recognised as a religion, not just as a hobby." She pointed out that religion is more than just a set of moral rules, that religion is about making contact with deity, and with celebration. | | | Pagans have already spoken at world religious conferences; the time may not be far off when a Pagan priest or priestess stands alongside the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Chief Rabbi and other religious leaders at major national events, with equality and mutual respect. | | | Pagans need to engage in serious dialogue with those of other religions, she said, but also need to defend themselves against the "right wing lunatic fringe". |
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http://www.lightwatcher.com/old_lightbytes/neo_pagans.html
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| | Neo-Pagans and Self Actualization Part II |
| | Pagan religions will either continue to be systems where peakers are free to experience their personal revelations, where new forms are welcomed and individual spiritual freedom is encouraged or they will eventually become just another in a long line of dead or dying organized religions. | | | Pagan religions will continue to be alive and vibrant only if we remain vigilant against the encroachment of dogmatism. | | | Some were peakers already who, dissatisfied with their organized religion's premises, found paganism to be a venue in which continuing revelation and experience were valued and welcomed. |
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http://www.davensjournal.com/NPaSA_PII.xhtml
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| | Against the Neo-Pagans |
| | Such a summons was often metaphysically enhanced and refined, and appeared as the natural consequence of the expansion of the ancient sacred state-concept; also as the form in which the victorious presence of the "higher world" and the paternal, Olympian principle sought to manifest itself in the world of becoming. | | | There was often a conscious and often systematic disparagement and misrepresentation of almost all the earlier traditions, doctrines, and religions, which were grouped under the contemptuous blanket-term of paganism or heathendom. | | | This misunderstanding is already visible in the use of terms such as "pagan" and "pagandom". |
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http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1404/pagan.html
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| | Eventually, the word "pagan" in English came to mean "lacking any religion", not believing in God, and indulging in the brutish, animalistic pleasures of violence and amoral sex. | | | No, "paganism" was associated with ignorance, bloodthirsty-ness and devilish (literally) brutality. | | | Trouble is, there have been many "purges" of all of these "survivals", over the centuries, not only by the Church but also by scientific rationalism. |
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http://www.starfirescircle.com/neopag.txt
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| | Introduction to Paganism |
| | Pagan religions are natural religions both in origin and in mode of expression as opposed to artificially created ideological religions. | | | Paganism are natural religions which find spiritual values in reason, nature, and the direct experience of the Gods. | | | Pagan religions do not have a place in their belief systems for a Satan, or evil protagonist. |
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http://www.tylwythteg.com/PaganPage/intro.html
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| | Neopagan |
| | These latter groups are mainly focussed on the 'atavistic' pagan religions and are generally not interested in post-pagan religions (with the possible exception of Hinduism). | | | Thus neo-pagans distinguish themselves from New Age groups 1-by using the term Goddess as a powerful metaphor for monism, 2- by re-enacting pagan lifestyles, 3- by being a nature based religion, and 4- by practising rituals and ceremonies. | | | In neo-pagan discourses, there is a strong emphasis on rituals, initiation, the concept and worship of the goddess. |
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http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/databases/lau/arc-pro/contents/neopagan/nach3.htm
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| | CAWeb - CAW Articles - Neo-Paganism and the Church of All Worlds: Some Questions and Answers |
| | In this sense, Paganism is religion; the foundation, ground and source of all we may term "religious" and "spiritual." And the CAW is essentially and profoundly Pagan. | | | Pagan religions, unlike philosophical religions, are not exactly "created," but swell up from the hearts of a people to fulfill a need. | | | Paganism is re-emerging today because natural religion is a spontaneous evocation of the spirit of Life, and will inevitably find expression in human cultures. |
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http://www.caw.org/articles/cawquest.html
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| | PSA Standard Flyer |
| | A Pagan (or Neo-Pagan) is a practitioner of any of a large number of beliefs derived from ancient religions. | | | The Pagan Student Alliance is a religious-based group for Pagan and Neo-Pagan students and faculty at S.F.A.S.U. We're here to provide a community for Pagans and other interested parties on the S.F.A. campus, to act as a voice for Pagans at S.F.A., and to foster religious understanding between people of different faiths. | | | Some are drawn to the nature based aspect of Paganism, feeling a strong need to "get back to the Earth." Other people simply find that Pagan beliefs fit their own worldview and their perceptions of the Universe. |
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http://www.osa.sfasu.edu/orgs/psa2/flyer.htm
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| | Paganism |
| | Gradually a pagan referred to anyone not being a Christian; and paganism came to mean a non-Christian belief or religion. | | | Most pagans and Neo-pagans view paganism as a religion chiefly worshiping the Mother Goddess, God and nature. | | | Present day pagans or Neo-pagans, as some refer to themselves, find a unison with the ecstatic and mysticism of the pre-Christian religions which they find missing in the mainstream Western religion. |
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http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/p/paganism.html
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| | They are attracted to Paganism because mainstream religion does not satisfy their need for an interactive faith, said the Rev. Susan Davis, a coven leader. | | | Pagan gatherings can include six or seven branches of Wicca, Native American traditions, Eastern/Buddhist practices and people blending Paganism into Christianity and Judaism, said Joyce Higginbotham, a former Catholic. | | | Two common characteristics include worshiping a goddess (or both a god and goddess) and a reverence for nature. |
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http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/studentwork/cns/2003-05-23/syndication/Burke-Pagan.txt
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| | Grand Rapids, MI Pagan Pride Day 2001: Resources: Neo-Paganism - The Divine In All Creation |
| | What they all share, the common thread within the multicolored tapestry of modern Neo-Paganism, is a reverence for Nature's ever-returning cycles, a spirit of community among individual diversity, and a search for personal truth, found not within another's revelation, but engraved on the spirit of the individual. | | | Neo-Pagans are generally polytheists, honoring more than one Deity, although many Neo-Pagans are also monists, believing that the many Gods and Goddesses are all aspects of a single Source. | | | Silhouetted against the Full Moon, a group of robes figures chants while a Priestess raises her arms in the candlelight to welcome the Goddess, the ancient Mother in her many names and forms, to their ceremony. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/home/grpaganpride/resources/neopaganism.html
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| | Anti-Neo-Pagan Apologetics (This Rock: May-June 2003) |
| | Many neo-pagans advance the claim that there should not be a single world religion with a single deity or set of deities to be worshiped by all mankind, but rather each group should worship the gods of their ancestors or of their preference. | | | The deities of European paganism were not able to ensure the survival of their own worship. | | | If the gods of each paganism aren’t to be identified, then there would seem to be multiple deities for every aspect of nature. |
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http://www.catholic.com/thisrock/2003/0305bt.asp
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| | Regardless of the actual derivation, today the word “Paganism” is often used to refer to the group of Pre-Christian European religions and, more generally, to the indigenous religions of the world. | | | In other words, a Pagan was someone who preferred the old local religions as opposed to the new religion of Christianity. | | | The idea was that the people who were converted to Christianity last were the people in the country, who continued to practice older religions. |
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http://www.calstatela.edu/orgs/pagancircle/pagan.html
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| | Neo-Pagan Unity |
| | This mysterious "Paganism (the Pagan religion)" is portrayed in such a manner that it seems as harmless and "normal" as possible. | | | However, a large number of Pagans do actually strive towards balance between deities of both sexes and their personal emphasis towards one or the other depends on their own relationships with different deities, not from their religious beliefs and practices being a reflection on the surrounding culture. | | | For monotheistic Pagans, especially those who worship only a Goddess divinity isn't as likely to manifest in a female form as it is in a male form, nor do both make as much sense -- to them. |
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http://www.kaaos.org/faerie/neopagan.html
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| | Joy's Essay |
| | More than just a religion in the common understanding of the word, it is a way of life which revives and recreates the tribal practices and traditions of ancient and indigenous peoples who derive their worship from the world around them. | | | The Neo-Pagan ethical system is reflected in the Wiccan Rede "an ye harm none, do as thou wilt," the belief that the Earth and the universe are living organisms and the belief that divinity is immanent. | | | For most Pagans, this means that one has the freedom to do whatever one wishes, as long as it harms nothing, including the self. |
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http://www.dancinghummingbird.com/joyw/essay3.html
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| | Book Review-Adler-Drawing Down the Moon |
| | The fact that she included the writings of various people involved with this religion proves that she tried to be as fair as possible in representing the beliefs of the groups and individuals. | | | Rituals, beliefs, and holidays are described for the Pagans who participate in these activities. | | | Adler believes this word has a negative association from ancient times because the last people to be converted to Christianity lived outside of cities, many of these people maintained their traditional religious practices. |
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http://www.crab.rutgers.edu/~banner/adler.html
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| | Pagan |
| | Pagans practice a variety of positive life affirming faiths that are dedicated to healing the people of the Earth as well as the Earth herself. As such, we do not advocate or condone any acts that victimize others, including those proscribed by law. | | | Pagans do not acknowledge, believe in, or worship a "Satan" or "Devil". | | | We have simply created this Web platform to provide you with what we believe to be our truth in the hopes that it will correct some of the erroneous misperceptions about our type of religion. We encourage you to search these pages and possibly it will help you validate your own path. |
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http://www.newageinfo.com/Pagan.htm
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| | ABC News: Appeals Court Tosses Judge's Wiccan Order |
| | Wiccans consider themselves witches, pagans or neo-pagans, and say their religion is based on respect for the earth, nature and the cycle of the seasons. | | | The parents' appeal said there were about 1 million pagans worldwide in 2002, more than the numbers who practice Sikhism, Taoism and other established religions in the United States. | | | Jones is a Wiccan activist who has coordinated Pagan Pride Day in the city. |
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http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1046552
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| | The SeaPagan List |
| | We welcome all who self-identify themselves as "pagans" or "neo-pagans" as well as those interested in neo-paganism and neo-pagan religions. | | | Topics relating to paganism in all its forms, especially those of a local regional focus, are the focus of the list. | | | Note: Seattle Pagan Information is on indefinite hiatus. |
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http://www.seapagan.org
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| | Russia, Paganism, Neo-Paganism |
| | Others strive to construct a synthesis of pagan and Christian elements, such as the doctrine of the Ancient-Russian Ingling Church of Orthodox Old Believers, founded in 1992 in Omsk by the occultist "Father" Alexander Khinevich. | | | Many aim to restore the old gods -- whether it be Perun, Svarog, and the other members of the ancient Slavic pantheon or Tengri, sun-god of the Turkic peoples before they adopted Islam -- in all their pristine glory. | | | Among the Abkhaz and some of the Volga peoples, traditional pagan beliefs have never been forgotten. |
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http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/6022-3.cfm
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| | CollegeWicca.com - Wiccans and Witches and Pagans, OH MY! |
| | Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Paganism, Wicca, Asatru, and Zoroastrianism are all examples of religions. | | | This is where you get the often-confusing phrase "Wiccans are Pagan, but not all Pagans are Wiccan." Be sure to remember that, because it helps with the even more confusing (and even wrong) "Wiccans are Witches, but not all Witches are Wiccan." Here is where we combine the ideas of religion and practice. | | | To make the analogy, Magick is to Practice as Paganism is to Religion. |
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http://www.collegewicca.com/wiccafiles/wwpdifferences.html
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| | Pagans & Christians Review (The Cauldron: A Pagan Forum) |
| | Pagans and Christians is a wonderful, first-of-its-kind book that belongs in the library of every Neo-Pagan who has to deal with Christians who fear or object to their religious beliefs. | | | The first section, "The Nature of Pagan Spirituality," is the only one I have real problems with. | | | His academic training serves him well as his book is clear, concise, generally respectful to both religions, and well-documented with endnotes in each chapter. |
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http://www.ecauldron.com/bkpactpse.php
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| | Some witches still celebrating / Neo-pagans have many more holidays than just Halloween |
| | According to Lon Sarver, a pagan spiritual counselor, these techniques are similar expressions of prayer or the power of positive thinking used in all religions, including Buddhism and Christianity. | | | The original meaning of pagan is rather innocuous -- "country dweller." According to the Roman Catholic Church in the third century, however, a pagan was anyone who didn't believe in Christianity. | | | He says Neo- paganism is a "religious expression" that heavily relies on imagination and fantasy. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/11/01/EB234632.DTL
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| | The Gathering - Pagan & Wiccan Culture |
| | The message of the Gospel will be looked at, with the purpose of determining how to answer the needs of the Pagan community, without changing the fundamental values of the Gospel message. | | | Lastly, church structure will be viewed, with the purpose of designing a church which will effectively reach out to the Pagan community. | | | The paper will help set a course of response to the Pagan community in Salem, Massachusetts, and will help lay a foundation for the planting of "The Gathering," a Foursquare Gospel church. |
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http://www.gathering4square.com/Gathering_Web/NewPages/pagan_study_intro.html
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| | Wicca: What Parents Should Know about Witchcraft |
| | Pagan usually refers to followers of ancient or primitive religions. | | | Wiccans and pagans would not deny being occultic (having secret, mystical teachings and practices), but they reject the worship of evil, animal sacrifices, and anything else associated with harming others. | | | The United States and Canada are experiencing an explosion in the interest in neo-paganism as evidenced by the founding of numerous “covens” or pagan churches. |
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http://www.lifeway.com/lwc/lwc_cda_article/0,1643,A=153390&X=1&M=50088,00.html
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| | Within Paganism, those who call themselves Neo-Pagans are attempting to define Neo-Paganism, and often Paganism. | | | 3) Satanists who are Pagans are attempting to define both, and are discussing/arguing these definitions not only among themselves, but also with the Pagans who aren't Satanists and with the Satanists who aren't Pagans. | | | CD@i> The problem in the "Are Satanists also Pagan" debate is not the CD@i> question as to whether or not Satanists have the right to define CD@i> themselves, it is that by so doing they _also_ seek to _redefine_ CD@i> Neo-Paganism. |
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http://www.luckymojo.com/esoteric/religion/neo-paganism/9606.defntns.b
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| | Neo-Paganism in the Post-Modern Age - Amber Laine Fisher |
| | Though anchored in the paganisms of ancient people and cultures and with more recent roots in the romantic literary movement in Victorian England and classical mythology, modern neo-paganism is clearly the result of many different anti-establishment ideologies coming together to provide a pliable, culturally rich spiritual system suited to life in the modern, western world. | | | Perhaps one of the fastest growing religious affiliations in the west, paganism is becoming a widespread cultural phenomenon. | | | And though not all neo-pagan religions have responded equally to all of these, none of them are immune to the effects they have had on western pop culture as a whole. |
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http://www.jwmt.org/v1n6/editorial.html
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| | Neo-Pagan Encyclopedia Resources |
| | Paganism (including Witchcraft/Wicca) is now a topic of serious academic and religious study, and is taking its place among the diverse faiths of the world. | | | This unique reference offers a complete assessment of modern paganism and magic as practiced by witches, druids, feminists, and others who believe that conventional religion has little relevance in the late 20th century. | | | Michael Jordan is the author of Gods of the Earth, Encyclopedia of Gods, and Myths of the World. |
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http://www.geocities.com/mikerdna/encneo.html
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| | Life Among the Neo-Pagans |
| | Already, teenage witches are expelled from school; Pagans in the military are harassed by religious fundamentalists; there have been public burnings of Harry Potter books; a Wiccan couple is challenging a court order that they must protect their 9-year-old son from "non-mainstream religious beliefs and rituals." | | | He declared that Wicca wasn't "a real religion." A real religion, of course, believes that there was a pair of dinosaurs on Noah's Ark. | | | As governor of Texas, Bush was part of a movement to deny access to religious facilities for soldiers at Fort Hood who were Pagan. |
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http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050829/krassner
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| | Witching Culture Magliocco, Sabina |
| | She explores, too, how modern Pagans and Witches are imaginatively reclaiming discarded practices and beliefs to create religions more in keeping with their personal experience of the world as sacred and filled with meaning. | | | Magliocco examines the roots that this religious movement has in a Western spiritual tradition of mysticism disavowed by the Enlightenment. | | | Neo-Pagan religions focus on experience, rather than belief, and many contemporary practitioners have had mystical experiences. |
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http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14029.html
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| | Hellenion |
| | Please be aware that although we support our Hellenic Pagan co-religionists around the world, and are sympathetic to the plight of those who live in countries where they face oppression, Hellenion does not advocate culture wars or bloodshed as a means of advancing the religion of the Gods of Olympus. | | | We do not feel that heritage is necessary to be involved in Hellenic spirituality; our gods choose as they will and we are Hellenes in spirit. | | | We offer local congregations, study opportunities, and fellowship for those who worship the Olympians and the other deities of ancient Greece in a traditional way. |
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http://www.hellenion.org
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| | Neo-Paganism & The Culture Industry |
| | As such, pagan ritual religions and mythology are to be held responsible, are to be blamed, for the domination of nature in enlightenment-scientific thought. | | | Horkheimer and Adorno contend that pagan ritual religions and myths are responsible for enlightenment - that enlightenment is their fault. | | | Mercer, M. (1996) "Hex Files: The Goth Bible - Goth Vampire Fetish Pagan" London: Batsford |
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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.fereday/macs02.htm
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| | Neo-Pagans: An Anthropological Study |
| | Considered the low end of the spectrum by almost all other Neo- Pagans, the Sixth World Church is a hodgepodge of street crazies, religious fanatics, weird scientists, and insane mages. | | | Many of the members were pagan, and the commune began to take on a religious aspect. | | | Pagan shamans need not follow one deity, but cannot follow more Aspects that their magic rating. |
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http://archive.dumpshock.com/society/neopagan.html
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| | Arguing Properly |
| | Keep in mind that you, the educated pagan are bigoted, narrow-minded, and opressive. | | | "The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles" and "The Stations of the Sun" by Professor Ronald Hutton, "The Sacred Ring" by Michael Howard, and "Mythology of the British Isles" by Geoffrey Ashe. | | | This is very unsettling to the experienced (and when I say 'experienced' I mean in quality, not quantity) pagan who knows better or has been down the same road. |
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http://www.thecrookedheath.com/argue.htm
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| | Hellenic Neo-Paganism |
| | A connection with the Earth is an essential part of Paganism, both Neo- and Paleo-, and thus many Neo-Pagans look to their ethnic roots as a source of spirituality, but I think that ethnicity can be construed too narrowly. | | | The Hellenic religion is sometimes criticized for being patriarchal, but to me it doesn't seem any more patriarchal than other ancient religions. | | | Although the gods can be known through many different pantheons, there are practical differences between them. |
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http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/BA/HNP.html
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| | Pagan Ethics: The Goddess made me do it! |
| | This is not a functional paradigm in the Pagan world, where we find neither a sacred text to defer to, nor do we find God "out there" somewhere in an objective position independent from ourselves. | | | After all we generally subscribe to a belief system that supports both immanent and internalized Deity and, to use a theologically technical term, is panentheistic -- we and the Deity are mutually dependent on one another. | | | Next you might consider overall practices and generally held beliefs specific to the Pagan community. |
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http://www.iit.edu/~phillips/personal/grammary/ethics.html
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| | Asatru, Odinism, Germanic heathenism, paganism: criticism |
| | While the Aryan Nations wraps its racism around a religion known as Christian Identity -- which contends that white people are the true children of God -- the White Order of Thule is tied to Greek and Norse mythology, and white superiority. | | | Gardner claims that much of the Wiccan Tradition is based on 'Celtic' Religions- but the Celts had no 'Law of Polarites'... | | | 'Germanic', 'Celtic' 'pagan' religion, and the far Right |
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http://www.stelling.nl/simpos/asatru.htm
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| | An Ye Harm Nonet by Shelley TSivia Rabinovitch and Meredith Macdonald |
| | Because we have no dogma or creed, it is harder to teach a young Witch how to assess their lifestyle in a Pagan manner. | | | Wicca attracts many wounded souls because it is one of the few spiritualities which recognizes the Divine in each of us ("Thou art God/dess"). | | | SR: One of my colleagues at the University of Ottawa (where I currently teach), Lucie DuFresne, was discussing the fact that after about the age of 30, most pagans buy very few books. |
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http://www.twpt.com/anyeharmnone.htm
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| | Witches' Voice - 15 October, 2005 - 12:41:48 PM |
| | TWV is a neutral forum open to all adherents of the various Heathen religions, Pagan, Witch, Wiccan traditions and to Solitary Practitioners who/that follow a positive code of ethics such as The Wiccan Rede or The Ring of Troth's, Nine Virtues. | | | Sure, there are other monotheistic religions out there, but for some reason, it’s these two that seem to bump heads the most. | | | In my daily life, I harbor three joined passions: a love of history, a study of philosophy, and my Pagan spiritual practice. |
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http://www.witchvox.com
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| | Russian Neo-pagan Myths and Antisemitism |
| | In recent times, this group has insisted that paganism is not a religion, but rather a system of scientific “Vedic” knowledge which supposedly flourished among the Slavic ancestors, but is now almost completely lost. | | | It is instructive that in all the novels, Oleg acts hand in hand with Christians, even though Russian paganism is represented as the basis for all later religions, including those with adherents worldwide. | | | One writer argues that the decline of true Russian culture had already begun by the time of the Kievan Rus (tenth century), and he calls for a restoration of the pagan Rus empire, which he claims was flourishing before the ninth century. |
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http://sicsa.huji.ac.il/13shnir.html
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| | Adherents.com |
| | "More than 1,600 pagans and their supporters have signed a letter to Pope John Paul II calling for the inclusion of pagans with Protestants and Jews in any Vatican apology for the Inquisition. | | | "In 'The Pagan Census' [1995] we found that 42% had attended one or more festivals that year; 57.1% of the respondents had not attended a festival in the preceding year; 0.9% did not respond to this question (H. Berger et al. | | | It is a major element in an expanding 'neo-pagan' movement whose members regard nature itself as charged with divinity. |
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http://www.adherents.com/Na/Na_467.html
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| | Beliefnet.com |
| | I know what my answer would be, but that's me, and I'd like to hear from others on it. | | | Ask respectful questions in Learn about Paganism and Beliefnet members will respond. | | | Want to learn about the teachings and practices of the many groups under the umbrella of Paganism? |
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http://www.beliefnet.com/boards/message_list.asp?boardID=344&discussionID=119985
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| | Voices from the Pagan Census |
| | While the number of people who identify themselves with the religion has continued to rise, quantitative study of Neo-Paganism has been difficult given the movement's lack of centralized leadership and doctrine and its development as scattered, independent groups and individuals. | | | Analyzing the most comprehensive and largest-scale survey of Neo-Pagans to date, the authors offer a portrait of this emerging religious community, including an examination of Neo-Pagan political activism, educational achievements, family life, worship methods, experiences with the paranormal, and beliefs about such issues as life after death. | | | Voices from the Pagan Census provides unprecedented insight into the expanding but largely unstudied religious movement of Neo-Paganism in the United States. |
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http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/2003/3488.html
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| | Pagan and Neo-Pagan Religion Study |
| | Washington University Pagan and Neo-Pagan Religion Study Courses | | | offering the BA and MA degrees, with many courses relevant to Pagan Religion Study. | | | Jerome Bauer's Pagan and Neo-Pagan Religion Study Courses |
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http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~jhbauer/pagan_religion_study.htm
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| | New England Reconstructionist Network |
| | If you are any sort of Pagan living in Northern NH, the Northern NH Pagans list may help you meet others too. | | | Pagan, Pagans, Paganism, NeoPagan, NeoPagans, NeoPaganism, Neo-Pagan, Neo-Pagans, Neo-Paganism, Celt, Norse, Asatru, Celtic Reconstructionist Pagan, Reconstructionism, Reconstructionists, Hellenic, Egyptian, Kemetic, Greek, Witch, Witches, Witchcraft, Wicca, Wiccan, Wiccans, Church of All Worlds, CAW, Discordian, Eris, satire, Caffiend, Hecafe, coffee, New Hampshire, NH, Northern NH, Northern New Hampshire | | | I am no longer running meetings and will not be likely to do so for the general Pagan Community, so the PCTs are no longer housed here. |
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http://nhcaffiend.tripod.com
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| | Druids go 'public' Arizona Daily Star ® |
| | Druids are part of a faith called neo-paganism - a broad term that typically applies to a person who celebrates nature, usually someone who practices a form of worship that descends from the various religions that preceded Christianity. | | | "A lot of disaffected Christians turn to paganism," Greene explains after invoking the nature deities during a recent Saturday morning worship service with the local Sonoran Sunrise Grove of Druids, which has about 30 members and is attracting a growing number of curious spectators to its eight yearly festivals. | | | Greene describes Druids as the "high Episco- pagans" of pre-Christianity because of their thirst for theological study, though unlike Christians they do not rely on a specific text like the Bible. |
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http://www.azstarnet.com/dailystar/printDS/21583.php
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| | The Pagan's Path ~ Awareness |
| | The Burning Times are attributed to Saint Augustine who said that pagans, Jews and heretics would burn forever in eternal fire with the Devil unless saved by the Catholic Church. | | | This is a modern day U.S. Congressman who is pushing his bigotry and ignorance into YOUR House on Capital Hill. | | | The period began in the mid-15th century to the mid-18th century. |
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http://www.paganspath.com/aware.htm
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