Navigating Academia and Spirituality from a Pagan Perspective

From early encounters with Methodism, Will Durant and Anton LaVey, my spiritual questing intersected with the Haight-Ashbury Counterculture. One culmination of this encounter was the emergence of the Strawberry Hill Coven. A second culmination was my disenchantment with Turtle Island and self-exile...

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Main Author: York, Michael 1939- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox Publ. [2016]
In: The pomegranate
Year: 2016, Volume: 17, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 115-127
Further subjects:B Wicca
B Paganism
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Summary:From early encounters with Methodism, Will Durant and Anton LaVey, my spiritual questing intersected with the Haight-Ashbury Counterculture. One culmination of this encounter was the emergence of the Strawberry Hill Coven. A second culmination was my disenchantment with Turtle Island and self-exile to Europe. In time - after many years of wandering through both Europe and India, I began to read for my Ph.D. at King's College London and became completely seduced by the academic world. This seduction coincided with the rise of contemporary Western paganism as a new religious movement as well as the sociological interest in understanding the movement. The rest of this contribution delineates what I have been able to witness of the advance of Pagan Studies within the field of education. Successes have been slow but incremental and steady. For the well-being of our planet, they are also vitally necessary.
ISSN:1743-1735
Contains:Enthalten in: The pomegranate
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1558/pome.v17i1-2.29681