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Christian Heritage in Researching Neopaganism: On How Christian Questions became internal in Neopaganism and Pagan Studies

Authors: Horák Pavel

Year: 2016

Type of publication: ostatní - přednáška nebo poster

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Language	Name	Abstract	Keywords
eng	Christian Heritage in Researching Neopaganism: On How Christian Questions became internal in Neopaganism and Pagan Studies	Pagan Studies have been criticized recently and some of the scholars among them were accused of loyalism, supernaturalism and essentialism. This paper attempts to analyse the reasons, which are beyond mentioned approaches in Pagan Studies. Problem is that Pagan Studies have been researching Neopaganism on the level of mere definitions so far and they lack systematic approach, which tries to explain it on the level of theory. My research is inspired by the research program Comparative Science of Cultures founded by S. N. Balagangadhara. He argues that originally Christian topics became secular, “non-religious” in the process of secularization, but despite their secular guise they still remained religious/Christian. I will argue that this secularized-Christian structure of thought is a basis of 1) contemporary Religious Studies, particularly Pagan Studies and 2) Neopagan self-conceptualization. It means that both Pagan Studies and Neopagans themselves solve originally Christian issues and questions. Besides that, Pagan Studies has taken over internal Neopagan issues and questions and also deals with them, which is also one of the reasons of the recent criticism. This paper aims to show those originally Christian theological questions within the Pagan Studies and tries to suggest different non-religious ones.	Christianity; Neopaganism; Pagan Studies; Age of Reason; Theology; Paganism;

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