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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"Paganism."”.
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Irish neo-paganism: worldview, ritual and identity
Neo-paganism is a vibrant, dynamic global movement, which has had a significant cultural impact. Neo-paganism is an umbrella term for a wide range of spiritual practices, often described as nature- or earth-based spirituality. There are different “paths” or spiritual traditions within this …
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Neo-paganism: ritual forged by the Burning Times
… to be just as fascinating and much more subtle. Paganism's practitioners greet the Burning Times with a sense of ambivalence. The Burning Times balances between being meaningful and meaningless. The Burning Times can be understood through legitimacy, myth, and space and time through two means. …
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Survivals of Paganism in Christian Medieval Iceland as Evidenced by the Icelandic Family Sagas
… the ensuing conflicts and tensions between paganism and Christianity, and pagan survivals under Christianity, they also include many descriptions of pagan religion and pre-Christian society in Iceland.<p> </p>A study of the Family sagas requires a knowledge of pre-Christian Germanic religion …
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Attitudes towards Paganism in Medieval Irish and Old Norse Texts of the Trojan War
The thesis compares the depictions of paganism found in the Middle Irish Togail Troí (‘The Destruction of Troy’; first half of the twelfth century) and the Old Norse Trójumanna saga (‘The Story of the Trojans’; first half of the thirteenth century), which are both based on Dares Phrygius’s Late …
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Movement and Motion: Spatial Change in Roman Domestic Religion. Paganism to Christianity, 1st-5th centuries CE
This thesis sets out to examine changes in Roman domestic spaces related to religious practice from the pagan to Christian period. I argue that in their spatial negotiation of pre-existing pagan spaces, early Christian belief was influenced by these pagan spaces. A long process of reinterpreting …
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Defining Twin Cities Wicca: The Emergence of Wicca as a Polyaffiliated Pagan Movement
… of the literature associated Wicca and Paganism. Bibliographies and narratives are studied to determine the most influential authors and practitioners in the Wiccan and Pagan tradition. The history of Wicca from England to the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, the focus of this …
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Why Aren't More Heathens Eco-Pagan Vegetarians? The Intersection Of Gender, Politics, And Spiritual Environmentalism
<p>Neo-Paganism, a nature-based new religious movement, provides a rich backdrop for the study of spiritual environmentalism. This ethnographic project analyzes the dynamic interconnectedness of neo-paganism and environmentalism, or "eco-paganism," and how Heathenry reframes the natural world using …
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Buried Feelings, Standing Stones: Secularity, Animism, and Late-Victorian Pagan Revivalism
… the late-Victorian period a revived form of paganism developed in response to an emerging kind of secularity. My first chapter engages post-secularism as a framework for understanding how paganism responds to this new sense of secularity, which I demonstrate formed alongside developments in …
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Newman and the Principle of Development
… convertible terms. When England emerged from paganism into Gospel light, it was Catholicity which the young and vigorous stock embraced, and under whose guidance she throve for many centuries.After well-nigh a thousand years had passed, a change came over the land; worldly might fettered …
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“God Is My Quarantine Buddy”: Debates in Ritual Practice Among North American Pagans in 2020
… four decades of research in the contemporary paganism faith movement in the United States have focused on the creation of cosmologies based on scholarship, reclamations of heritage, counter-culturalism, and environmentalism. However, the dialogue has changed drastically in recent years due to …
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Extending the Non-Contact Healing Paradigm to Explore Distant Mental Interaction Effects of Pagan Healing Spells
Paganism is a burgeoning belief system in the UK, which has received little attention from psychological researchers. Healing is a key aspect of modern Pagan practice, yet it too receives little attention from those investigating distance healing practices. Given the growth of Paganism in recent …
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The Religious world of Quintus Aurelius Symmachus
This thesis explores the last decades of legal paganism in the Roman Empire of the second half of the fourth century CE through the eyes of Symmachus, orator, senator and one of the most prominent of the pagans of this period living in Rome. It is a religious biography of Symmachus himself, but it …
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Religious propaganda in selected Anglo-Saxton literature
… After a description of the rites of Anglo-Saxon paganism, an attempt is made to outline the manner in which the Christian missionaries used certain aspects of pagan belief to promote Christianity. As such, these texts may therefore be viewed as religious propaganda in the Anglo- Saxon Church's …
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The Horned God as Environmental Figure in Anglophone Fantasy Fiction and Live Action Role-Play.
… God’s role as an environmental figure in modern paganism, fantasy fiction and Live Action Role-Play, while acknowledging that these three fields are interconnected. The Horned God is a modern pagan deity popularised by ‘grandmother of Wicca’, Margaret Murray, and associated with wild nature and …
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The Nazi "Church": Nazism as Ersatzreligion
… neither a political religion nor was it simply paganism; instead, National Socialism became its own religion which replaced traditional German Christianity at a time when a nation, ripe for questioning God, was suffering from the aftermath of a disastrous war.</p> <p>Hitler's Third Reich was as …
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Astrology in the Torah: a comparative study of astrological themes in the Hebrew Bible and Babylonian Talmund.
… of the ancient world, surrounded by paganism and astrolatry, emerged the Jewish Bible. A millennium later, in quiet enclaves of the Sasanian Empire of pre-Islamic Iran, a melting-pot of heterogeneous religious and ethnic communities, dominated by Zoroastrian culture, the Babylonian …
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Multiple Allegiances, Conflicting Attributions of Honor, and the Resulting Moral Dilemmas In the Nibelungenlied
… of multiple courts and the coexistence of paganism and Courtly Christian ideals ultimately lead to certain tragic ends, which bear stark resemblance to the Norse apocalypse.</p>
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Recreating Beowulf’s “Pregnant Moment of Poise”: Pagan Doom and Christian Eucatastrophe Made Incarnate in the Dark Age Setting of The Lord of the Rings
… of “fusion” which occurred in the Dark Ages as paganism was in decline and Christianity on the rise, when the dueling notions of Doom and salvation briefly coexisted in the hearts and minds of the Anglo-Saxon people. Derived from a careful study of Tolkien’s fiction, lectures, letters, and the …
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Recreating Beowulf’s “Pregnant Moment of Poise”: Pagan Doom and Christian Eucatastrophe Made Incarnate in the Dark Age Setting of The Lord of the Rings
… of “fusion” which occurred in the Dark Ages as paganism was in decline and Christianity on the rise, when the dueling notions of Doom and salvation briefly coexisted in the hearts and minds of the Anglo-Saxon people. Derived from a careful study of Tolkien’s fiction, lectures, letters, and the …
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