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„We are Pagans...“: Self-reflection and the Influence of Christianity in the Czech and Irish Contemporary Paganism.

Authors: Horák Pavel

Year: 2015

Type of publication: ostatní - přednáška nebo poster

Page from-to: nestránkováno

Titles:

Language	Name	Abstract	Keywords
eng	„We are Pagans...“: Self-reflection and the Influence of Christianity in the Czech and Irish Contemporary Paganism.	Neopagans try to reconstruct and continue practising ancient European pre-Christian traditions. Comparing the way of thinking of ancient “pagans” and their Christian contemporaries I will show how Christianity came up with a completely new way of thinking, especially with the notion of religion as we know it nowadays. Neopagans have unconsciously adopted the theoretical framework Christianity came up with. Hence I claim that contemporary Neopaganism has found itself within the framework of Christianity and its self-conceptualization is therefore implicitly Christian. I will show it through the data collected from my fieldwork of the last four years among the contemporary Czech Neopagans and comparing it with the results from my fieldwork among Irish Neopagans. The data from my fieldwork are striking and appeal for the need to rethink the theoretical foundations of Pagan Studies. Hence the attempt is to outline a few basic ways how to deal with this issue.	Neopaganism; Theology; Pagan Studies; New Religious Movements

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