Trends in Pagan Publishing

Witchvox tips me off to a new book by Brendan “Cathbad” Myers that tackles the issue of Paganism and social/environmental activism.

“‘Dangerous Religion’ is a thought-opera of spiritual contemplations on Pagan and environmental themes, and simultaneously a manual for environmental activists and other participants in the anti-globalization movement.”

Activism, specifically environmental activism and related global justice issue have been popping up in more Pagan books lately. For instance T. Thorn Coyle’s latest book Evolutionary Witchcraft.

“We need to connect, to find the sacred in our lives right now, rather than on some future day of transcendence and redemption. In a time of global and environmental crises, a religion that firmly connects us to the earth is not only appealing, but crucial.”

Join these with Starhawk’s ongoing work and recent book on her global justice activism “Webs of Power” and it looks like there is an emergent voice in the Pagan publishing market.

All this along with the recent growth in books and journals by Pagan academics sends positive signals of a faith evolving away from it’s adolescence and into a mature religious movement.

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