Paganism” is a word with which to conjure. From The Iliad to the Wicker Man, it has been part of Western culture, and has in ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook There’s no doubt that the world has a lot of conflicting opinions about Paganism. Some believe ...

(RNS) — This time of year, a bruja, or witch, practices central Mexican Indigenous rituals and modern pagan ones, both honoring the Earth and “us as individuals as part of nature.” But the holidays of ...

Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques, Vol. 40, No. 2, Special Issue: Religion(s) and the Enlightenment (SUMMER 2014), pp. 34-55 (22 pages) Classical polytheism or "paganism" presented a ...

(RNS) — The rising sun is shining through my south-facing windows, just over a week after the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere. As a scientifically minded person, I understand that this ...

After the plague of the wild beasts, Pharaoh tells Moshe that the Jews can worship Hashem… in Egypt. Moshe responds that doing so is impractical since the Jews plan to sacrifice sheep, which is an ...

Ideas about Vikings and Norse mythology come mostly from much later medieval sources, leaving plenty of room for ...