Title: Touching the Divine: Recent Research on Neo-Paganism and Neo-Shamanism
Abstract: Why do religions that are in some sense invented out of the western scholarship on shamanism and paganism have such a hold on the western imagination? This article reviews four recent contributions to the literature on neo-paganism and neo-shamanism. As exemplified in the books under review, these religions have three basic characteristics—magical realism, playfulness, and experientalism—which are not unique to them, but shared by many modern faiths. The article argues that these are not primitive throw-backs but ways of responding to the doubt and skepticism of a modern pluralistic age.
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-04-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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