An Outsider Inside: Becoming a Scholar of Contemporary Paganism

This article explores how serendipity resulted in one sociologist becoming a scholar of a minority religion of which she is not a member. As one of the early scholars of contemporary Paganism, Berger describes both its transformation in the past thirty years and her contribution to that change. Sh...

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Main Author: Berger, Helen A. 1949- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox Publ. [2015]
In: The pomegranate
Year: 2015, Volume: 17, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 128-140
Further subjects:B Pagan scholarship
B Contemporary Paganism
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