... of what constitutes ritual efficacy is examined. I argue that it is in the points where participant and organizer experiences meet or fail to meet, that the boundary work of coordinators in ritual becomes essential. ecumenism embodiment new age/paganism/neo-paganism ritual Catholicism Unitarian...

...Meg Yardley Social Work Practice with Pagans, Witches, and Wiccans: Guidelines for Practice with Children and Youths Meg Yardley This article introduces social workers to the beliefs...

...The Christianization of the Roman Empire passed a milestone in the early fifth century, producing a senator who publicly professed paganism. Paganism can be said to have been either dying from the moment of its conception, as its constituent practices fell into abeyance, or surviving up...

...This chapter discusses Pagan life-cycle rituals and the ambivalence they elicit by considering the formal inclusion of children into contemporary Paganism through adult-led rituals such as Wiccanings and coming-of-age rites. As Pagan adults conduct these rituals, they simultaneously reject...

...This concluding chapter argues that the study of Pagan parenting and childhood illuminates important features of American parenting and childhood as well as religious communities and imaginations in the twenty-first century. French sociologist Danièle Hervieu-Léger suggests that religion can...

... later exiles. He mobilized them for a far different purpose, however. Instead of defending the church against impious attacks, Theophilus and his followers led an offensive that spread the faith by destroying Alexandria's pagan religious infrastructure. With imperial help, they then refashioned...

... to the “iron cage” of modernity. It demonstrates that Weber came to theorize “the disenchantment of the world” (die Entzauberung der Welt) not out of frustration with Prussian bureaucracy, but rather in response to lodging at a Swiss neo-pagan commune. Christianity Cosmic Circle First World War Hermetic...

...This concluding chapter attempts to enrich our understanding of the position of moderate pagans confronted with the Emperor Julian's extremism. It considers again the edict and the subsequent imperial letter that Julian wrote with regard to teachers of higher education. Whereas the traditional view...

... Body Congruence Panorama Ritual Paganism Mediation In previous chapters I established that film as thought is also an expression of intentionality: film is both a mental state and an event that provides a sense of ‘aboutness’. The question ‘what is the film about?’ signals that a complex network...

... Claudel Paul context ecology Hall Matthew Hassan Ihab Heidegger Martin Kohn Eduardo Marder Michael metaphysics mysticism nationalism paganism politics posthumanism postmetaphysics postnationalism rootlessness twentieth century vegetal democracy Weil Simone anthropology...

... of the evolution and gradual victory of the principle of religious toleration on a variety of grounds. Among the world's great monotheistic religions, Christianity has been the most intolerant. Early Christianity was intolerant of Judaism, from which it had to separate itself, and of ancient paganism, whose...

...This chapter argues that Shenoute's antipagan violence was the exception and not the rule in late antique Egypt. His attacks against houses containing pagan idols—in particular the house of his great rival, Gesios of Panopolis—were opposed not only by pagans but also by most Christians. This shows...

... on select new religions, ranging from the extremely diverse Pagan movement to ‘fundamentalist’ movements such as the Unification Church and Mormonism, with perspectives on cultural change, gender roles and the “youth crisis theory.” gender Christianity Christian Christendom De Beauvior Simone Eliade...

...In the twentieth century, all across Europe, new religious communities appeared which drew inspiration from historical Paganisms. The Wiccan tradition, first presented in the United Kingdom in the second half of the twentieth century by Gerald Gardner, has been one of the most influential and far...

... and Michael Tippett. Their work was aesthetically and spiritually conceived, intensifying the ecstatic tendencies of English diatonic music. Howells turned to the Anglican liturgical tradition, giving the evening canticles in particular an intimate, personal touch, whereas Tippett’s imagery was pagan...

... regarding the ownership of the great fourth-century Romano-British villa estates; and the increasing assault on paganism. Ausonius Decimus Magnus Gallo Roman poet Brittunculi Petronius Gaius or Titus Petronius Arbiter author of the Satyricon Silvius Bonus Romano British poet writing tablets Allectus...

... Henry Maddox Isaac Neal Daniel Peirce James Waterland Daniel Webster William Williams Philip Baxter Richard enthusiasm anti-popery schism Reformation paganism patristics medieval Anabaptists Quakers Puritans Let an Enthusiast, in the Fever of his Imagination, vent the grossest...

... of the Viking Age; the earldom of Orkney; Earl Thorfinnr; and the conversion of Scandinavian Scotland from Norse paganism to Christianity. There is no contemporary account of the conversion of Scandinavian Scotland from Norse paganism to Christianity. Among the sagas Fagrskinna...

...This chapter details John of Salisbury's role in addressing the Problem of Paganism. For him, as for Abelard, who was briefly his teacher, the Problem of Paganism is a constant concern, which is addressed explicitly. Unlike Abelard, however, John does not make his own views on it immediately...

...This chapter turns to the second aspect of the Problem of Paganism: virtue. The dominant view among scholastic theologians in the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries was that pagans could be genuinely virtuous, although their virtues were not of the sort which could merit salvation...