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Pagan Roots — available now

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“Pagan Roots: Reclaiming Concepts of the Sacred,” by Yvonne Aburrow.

Available now from 1000Volt Press via books2read.com/paganroots

Cover art by Lydia Knox.

“Pagan Roots: Reclaiming concepts of the sacred” will be published on 22 April 2025 and available from all online stores.

Contemporary Paganism has sought to recover some concepts that were lost or rejected in past centuries, but has ignored or rejected others that were absorbed into Christian discourse. Can we reclaim some of these terms and recover their original meanings?

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Smash that Protestant lens

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Great piece from John Beckett this morning which covers some really good points about how to write about different religions, why the word “religion” should not be used as a synonym for Christianity, and how not all religions fit the “Protestant lens” (the way people tend to use the Protestant paradigm as a way to try to make sense of other religions—which doesn’t work).

Decentering Christianity in Religious Discussions