Luke Babb reviews the recent collection of academic essays “Paganism and Its Discontents: Enduring Problems of Racialized Identity,” and considers whether an academic discussion can make much progress in the fight against racist forms of Paganism.
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Column: They counted on their fingers and toes
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Manny Tejeda-Moreno recollects an experience as an undergraduate triggered by this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics.
Paganism
Opinion: Sigurd, the Dragon, and Our World Today
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Karl Seigfried examines the myths of the Old Norse Volsung cycle and considers what meanings they might have for the modern world.
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Opinion: A Little Bit of History Repeating – The New “Satanic Panic”
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Storm Faerywolf examines the QAnon movement – and how it resembles far too closely the “Satanic Panic” movement of the 1980s and 90s.
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Column: Hearing Gaia’s Call
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In a Spotlight on Tradition column, Bart Everson introduces TWH’s readers to the humanistic tradition of Gaianism, based on the Gaia Theory made famous by Lovelock, Margulis, and Oberon Zell.
Paganism
Opinion: Santa Muerte Worshipers Confronted by a Christian Preacher
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Jaime Gironés comments on an incident of a white American Christian preacher disturbing worship at a Santa Muerte shrine in Mexico City.