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Comparing Transgender Identities in the Census of Scotland and the Census of England and Wales. [PDF]

open access: yesBr J Sociol
ABSTRACT The most recent British census was the first to elicit transgender identity. The 2021 Census of England and Wales asked ‘Is the gender you identify with the same as your sex registered at birth?’. It is has been argued that this formulation confused a substantial number of respondents who erroneously answered in the negative.
Biggs M.
europepmc   +2 more sources

The cultural effects of neo-paganism’s ritual creativity

open access: yesCiencias Sociales y Religión/Ciências Sociais e Religião, 2021
In the last fifty years, different spiritual movements—that do not correspond to the church model and that—have emerged, due to their fluid and dynamic character, have propitiated an advance of global networks and have contributed to making specialized ...
Renée De la Torre   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Animistic Way: Contemporary Paganism and the Posthuman

open access: yesPoligrafi, 2021
This article aims to explore the affinities between contemporary Paganism and the posthuman project in how they approach the non-human natural world. On the one hand, posthumanism explores new ways of considering the notion of humans and how they are ...
Victoria Marina Lima Dos Santos
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Pagans and Satan and Goths, Oh My: Dark Leisure as Communicative Agency and Communal Identity on the Fringes of the Modern Goth Scene [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Goth music's cultural terrain has been extensively mapped in the first decade of this century. Through a dark leisure framework, the present article examines the way in which parts of the Goth scene embraced paganism and, latterly, Satanism, as actual ...
Spracklen, B, Spracklen, K
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Julian between pagans and christians

open access: yesMontesquieu.it, 2020
The kind of religion that Julian wanted to restore had very little in common with classical paganism, which comprised a set of doctrines that presupposed an unprecedented systematization of theology as well as a specific moral teaching.
Arnaldo Marcone
doaj   +1 more source

The Williams Scale of Attitude toward Paganism: development and application among British Pagans [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This article builds on the tradition of attitudinal measures of religiosity established by Leslie Francis and colleagues with the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity (and reflected in the Sahin-Francis Scale of Attitude toward Islam, the Katz ...
Adamson G.   +77 more
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Paganism in Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure: The Possibility of Faith and Ethics in a Darwinian World

open access: yesCahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2014
This article aims at exploring Hardy’s representation of paganism in Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure, in the light of Hardy’s Darwinism. While Hardy’s support of paganism has been much debated, the comparison between these two novels shows
Marie Panter
doaj   +1 more source

Sacred sites, contested rites/rights: contemporary pagan engagements with the past [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Our Sacred Sites, Contested Rites/Rights project (www.sacredsites.org.uk) examines physical, spiritual and interpretative engagements of today’s Pagans with sacred sites, theorises ‘sacredness’, and explores the implications of pagan engagements with ...
Blain, J., Wallis, R. J.
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Paganism as a Religious Phenomenon

open access: yesУкраїнське Pелігієзнавство, 2003
Paganism is an indeterminate term both in science in general and in religious studies in particular. It acquires a different meaning load depending on who and what it is used for.
Anatolii M. Kolodnyi
doaj   +1 more source

The Virtual Rebirth of Paganism

open access: yesJournal for Religion, Film and Media, 2023
This article begins by examining how two very popular massively multiplayer onlinegames, Dark Age of Camelot (Mythic Entertainment, US 2001) and Age of Conan(Funcom, NO 2008), manage complex social and cultural structures.
Sims Bainbridge, William
doaj   +1 more source

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