A fun reworking of the language that has been used to oppress pagans, the Feminine, minorities, and the Earth. Entertaining and educational. If you ever wondered about what the words you're using, are saying behind your back, you'll definitely want this one on your shelf. ...
Achtung, religious believers and/or anyone who’s ever slungThere but for the grace of god go Ito a fellow human being:Is that how you respond to and/or think about tragedies and misfortunes – that shit falls on some people and not on others due to the whims (“grace”) of a deity?
and the Pursuit of Happiness(2014). In it, Freedman expertly analyzes the words and lyrics of Canadian rock drummer, inveterate traveler, and man of letters Neil Peart. Unlike Virgil, last of the pagans, Peart might very well be the last great, post-Christian Western man, clinging to tradi...
I thought it was an important project, but one of the really difficult things about academia is figuring out whether you’re any good. We all have imposter syndrome and we all spend our time writing applications and grants where we have to grandstand about how amazing we are: the combination...
Read 5 Pagans and Christians by Robin Lane Fox How accurate is what we think we know about the Romans? Tom Holland, the author of Rubicon, tells us about the exercise of power, the staging of ceremony and the influence of religion in ancient Rome. If you've enjoyed these recommendations...
whose father needs pagan magic to consolidate his power. Gáspár fears that his cruelly zealous brother plans to seize the throne and instigate a violent reign that would damn the pagans and the Yehuli alike. As the son of a reviled foreign queen, Gáspár understands what it’s like to ...
certainty. The rituals and ceremonies that pagans perform are, apparently,“quite pleasant for their participants”with music, dancing, alcoholic beverages and, gosh,“interaction with the opposite sex”phwoah. We could pick out other moments to critique but it’s not worth the effort, suffice ...
Pagels, Elaine, The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans, and Heretics. (Vintage, 1996) Pagels is another historian whom it’s hard to go wrong with, much like Crossan, when it comes to the history of early Christianity. I also recommend this particular book, though, bec...
Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America, Margot Adler, 1979 (original edition) and 2001 (revised) Read on Amazon Surprisingly little has been written, at least in book form, on the history of the Neopagan culture in the United States. This...
I love that there is a 1996 piece by environmentalist writer/activist Bill McKibben, and a fiesty contribution by Brazos Press founder Rodney Clapp —“Let the Pagans Have the Holidays.” I’m eager to read the one by the late Stan Grenz. And there’s a classic (in my memory, at ...