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ISBN: 0773589651 9780773589650 9780773589667 077358966X 9780773542624 0773542620 Year: 2013 Publisher: Montréal, Québec : McGill-Queen's University Press,
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As Ukraine struggles to find its national identity, modern Ukrainian Pagans offer an alternative vision of the Ukrainian nation. Drawing inspiration from the spiritual life of past millennia, they strive to return to the pre-Christian roots of their ancestors. Since Christianity dominates the spiritual discourse in Ukraine, Pagans are marginalized, and their ideas are perceived as radical. In The Return of Ancestral Gods, Mariya Lesiv explores Pagan beliefs and practices in Ukraine and amongst the North American Ukrainian diaspora. Drawing on intensive fieldwork, archival documents, and published sources not available in English, she allows the voices of Pagans to be heard. Paganism in Slavic countries is heavily charged with ethno-nationalist politics, and previous scholarship has mainly focused on this aspect. Lesiv finds it important to consider not only how Paganism is preached but also the way that it is understood on a private level. She shows that many Ukrainians embrace Paganism because of its aesthetic aspects rather than its associated politics and discusses the role that aesthetics may play in the further development of Ukrainian Paganism. Paganism in Eastern Europe remains underrepresented within Pagan studies, and this work helps to fill that gap. Extensive comparative references to various forms of Western Paganism allows English-speaking readers to better understand the world of Ukrainian Pagans.
Paganism --- Neopaganism --- Neo-paganism --- Religions --- Civilization, Pagan --- Heathenism --- Ukraine --- Religion.
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ISBN: 0814744982 9780814744987 9780814769744 0814769748 9781479894604 1479894605 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York
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For most of its history, contemporary Paganism has been a religion of converts. Yet as it enters its fifth decade, it is incorporating growing numbers of second-generation Pagans for whom Paganism is a family tradition, not a religious worldview arrived at via a spiritual quest. In Pagan Family Values, S. Zohreh Kermani explores the ways in which North American Pagan families pass on their beliefs to their children, and how the effort to socialize children influences this new religious movement. The first ethnographic study of the everyday lives of contemporary Pagan families, this volume brings their experiences into conversation with contemporary issues in American religion. Through formal interviews with Pagan families, participant observation at various pagan events, and data collected via online surveys, Kermani traces the ways in which Pagan parents transmit their religious values to their children. Rather than seeking to pass along specific religious beliefs, Pagan parents tend to seek to instill values, such as religious tolerance and spiritual independence, that will remain with their children throughout their lives, regardless of these children's ultimate religious identifications. Pagan parents tend to construct an idealized, magical childhood for their children that mirrors their ideal childhoods. The socialization of children thus becomes a means by which adults construct and make meaningful their own identities as Pagans. Kermani’s meticulous fieldwork and clear, engaging writing provide an illuminating look at parenting and religious expression in Pagan households and at how new religions pass on their beliefs to a new generation.
Families --- Neopaganism --- Family worship --- Religious life --- Neo-paganism --- Religions --- Religious life.
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ISBN: 9780814769744 9781479894604 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York : NYU Press,
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Neopaganism --- Families --- Néopaganisme --- Famille --- Religious life. --- Vie religieuse. --- 291.17 --- 316.356.2 <73> --- Neo-paganism --- Religions --- Family worship --- Religious life --- 291.17 Areligiositeit. Volkeren zonder godsdienst. Heidenen --- Areligiositeit. Volkeren zonder godsdienst. Heidenen --- 316.356.2 <73> Gezinssociologie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Gezinssociologie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Paganism --- Pagan childhood --- parenting --- ritual --- America --- family values
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