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Dr. Cressida Stone, author of “Secrets of Santa Muerte: A Guide to the Spells, Prayers, Rituals, and Hexes,” sat down with our editor-in-chief to discuss her book and experiences with Santa Muerte.
In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: Indigenous communities denounce Ottowa protestors using Native symbols, HBCUs threatened at the start of Black History Month, Roma demand Jimmy Carr apologize, community announcements and more news.
Jaime Gironés comments on an incident of a white American Christian preacher disturbing worship at a Santa Muerte shrine in Mexico City.
Jaime Gironés comenta sobre un incidente en el que un predicador cristiano estadounidense blanco perturbó el culto en un santuario de la Santa Muerte en la Ciudad de México.
In many ways, practitioners of modern Pagan religions can be seen as renegades. They are often well-educated about, and in many cases raised within, one of the mainstream faiths and have found that faith to be unfulfilling, uninspiring, or otherwise wanting. Rather than giving up, they have sought their own path and found practices that speak to their own needs within their own contexts. Modern Pagans are those who have seen what mainstream society dictates and have rejected that prescription to follow their own path. However, renegades exist within even the mainstream religions.