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Modern Paganism, also known as Contemporary Paganism and Neopaganism, is a group of new religious movements influenced by or claiming to be derived from the various historical pagan beliefs of pre-modern Europe. Although they do share similarities, contemporary Pagan religious movements are diverse and no single set of beliefs, practices, or texts are shared by them all. Most academics studying the phenomenon have treated it as a movement of different religions, whereas a minority instead characterise it as a single religion into which different Pagan faiths fit as denominations. Not all members of faiths or beliefs regarded as Neopagan self-identify as "Pagan".
Adherents rely on pre-Christian, folkloric and ethnographic sources to a variety of degrees; many follow a spirituality which they accept as being entirely modern, while others attempt to reconstruct or revive indigenous, ethnic religions as found in historical and folkloric sources as accurately as possible. Academic research has placed the Pagan movement along a spectrum, with Eclecticism on one end and Polytheistic Reconstructionism on the other. Polytheism, animism, and pantheism are common features in Pagan theology. Rituals take place in both public and in private domestic settings.
Neil deGrasse Tyson (/ˈniːəl dəˈɡræs ˈtaɪsən/; born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and science communicator. Since 1996, he has been the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York City. The center is part of the American Museum of Natural History, where Tyson founded the Department of Astrophysics in 1997 and has been a research associate in the department since 2003.
Born in New York City, Tyson became interested in astronomy at the age of nine after a visit to the Hayden Planetarium. After graduating from the Bronx High School of Science, where he was editor-in-chief of the Physical Science Journal, he completed a bachelor's degree in physics at Harvard University in 1980. After receiving a master's degree in astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin in 1983, he earned his master's (1989) and doctorate (1991) in astrophysics at Columbia University. For the next three years, he was a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University, and in 1994, he joined the Hayden Planetarium as a staff scientist and the Princeton faculty as a visiting research scientist and lecturer. In 1996, he became director of the planetarium and oversaw its $210-million reconstruction project, which was completed in 2000.
★ OathBoundSecrets is a collaboration channel dedicated to distributing free information about Wicca and Witchcraft. Please like our facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/OathBoundSecrets ★ The quotes that I am reading in this video are from the British Museum, London, as are the photos shown, which I took on a recent visit. ★ Quote from Wikipedia: Paganism (from Latin paganus, meaning "country dweller", "rustic") is a blanket term, typically used to refer to religious traditions which are polytheistic or indigenous. It is primarily used in a historical context, referring to Greco-Roman polytheism as well as the polytheistic traditions of Europe and North Africa before Christianization. In a wider sense, extended to contemporary religions, it includes most of the Eastern religions an...
Even though Greece is a predominately Christian Orthodox country, there are some people in this country who still believe in the 12 Gods of mount Olympus, deriving from Greek Mythology. According to unofficial sources they amount to a couple of hundreds and present themselves as members of the unofficial so-called "Greek Religion". This is a mixture of beliefs that combine paganism, the idea of spiritual connection with nature and a kind of fixation to the Ancient Greek ideals. Over the past decades they have founded various different groups, the oldest and most popular among them being the "Greek Naionals High Commissioned Council (GNHCC) - Υπατο Συμβούλιο Ελλήνων Εθνικών," founded 30 years ago. Read the full feature here: bit.ly/oh-my-gods More from VICE INTL: Inside a Biker Gang Full...
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Today at work I had an interesting conversation with a coworker who turns out to actually be a neo-pagan.
A lot of these are examples from my personal life, and others are from my friends or people's stories I've read online. Because of this, I had to make it "SHIT PEOPLE SAY TO: Pagans, Neopagans, Wiccans, Witches, etc." because some of these things apply to Wiccans only while others are common to any pagan, and so on. I'm sure other groups get specific things said to them, too, but I only included what I know of. As I said, MANY of these were actually said to me or a friend. (I didn't even include "BURN THE WITCH!" which someone yelled at my friend.) Others are from blogs online where someone shared a story, and others are paraphrases, but all of these things have been said to someone in some way. Nothing except the last part was entirely made up. These are not what I THINK people say abo...
facebook.com/BSU.SER twitter.com/BallStateSER Ball State Society for Earth-based Religions presents "DEEP Talks with SER". This is our first installment, on the history of neopaganism. Lecture and narration by Jackson Eflin (SER President 2013-14). Production by Nick Nelson (SER President 2014-15).
A neo-pagan style music concert conducted at the ancient Temple of Zeus, Athens Greece. Composed by Vangelis who also wrote the lyrics in ancient Greek. This production was coordinated with NASA to celebrate the Mars Odyssey spacecraft entering the orbit of Mars. For further information - Mythodea.
June 2014 - Vinderup, Denmark Web - documentary on Danish neopaganism, part of a multimedia web-page link: https://medium.com/@andreapuntoarena/pagan-revival-343fef14de95 www.andreapuntoarena.com The Greatþing event took place in May 2014 by a group of asetruers of the Nordisk Tingsfællig
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