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Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries
, 2017The slaughter of animals for religious feasts, the tinkling of bells to ward off evil during holy rites, the custom of dancing in religious services-these and many other pagan practices persisted in the Christian church for hundreds of years after ...
R. Macmullen
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The Open Door to Hidden Paganism
This book presents the first-ever English translation of ‘The Open Door to Hidden Paganism’, one of the earliest and most detailed studies of South Indian Hinduism. Written in 1651 by Abraham Rogerius, a Dutch East India Company clergyman and missionary,
Benjamin Leathley
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Spiritual Pizzica: A Southern Italian Perspective on Contemporary Paganism
The Pomegranate, 2019In this article, the result of an ongoing ethnographic fieldwork among a contemporary Pagan group in the Salento area of Italy, I research the peculiar expression of contemporary Pagan spiritualities centered on the interpretation of a “traditional ...
G. Parmigiani
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The Hunt for Lost Identity: Native Faith Paganism in Contemporary Lithuania
The Pomegranate, 2019The article presents the results of the author's in-depth ethnographic research carried out during 2011-017. It focuses on the Native Faith Paganism movement in contemporary Lithuania.
D. Senvaitytė
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2015
The Latin word paganus (pagan), which originally meant “a country district or community,” could take on a more general sense as “a place with fixed boundaries.” From this early meaning, paganus evolved to mean civilian as opposed to military.
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The Latin word paganus (pagan), which originally meant “a country district or community,” could take on a more general sense as “a place with fixed boundaries.” From this early meaning, paganus evolved to mean civilian as opposed to military.
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The Problem with Paganism in Charity Registration in England and Wales
Implicit Religion, 2019Charity registration is one means by which a group can claim religious status in England and Wales. As groups must also prove their "religious" activities are for public benefit, it domesticates religion by forcing groups to conform to liberal Protestant
Suzanne Owen
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Pagans and Paganism in the Age of the Sons of Constantine
2020This chapter establishes that the 340s and 350s were of paramount importance for the development of the traditional cults and their relation to Christianity and the increasingly Christian empire. Their impact extended beyond Constantius II’s death and is key to our understanding of Julian’s reaction and the further history of ancient religions.
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Pagan Survivals versus Surviving Paganism
Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, 2023Conner, Randy P. 2020. The Pagan Heart of the West: Embodying Ancient Beliefs and Practices from Antiquity to the Present (Oxford: Mandrake of Oxford). Frew, Donald H. 1998, ‘Methodological Flaws in Recent Studies of Historical and Modern Witchcraft’, Ethnologies 20.1: 33–66. Hutton, Ronald. 2022. Queens of the Wild: Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe
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The Interpretation of the Old Testament in Greco-Roman Paganism
, 2020J. Cook
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