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Claims Paganism's place as a world religion, situating it as a religion, a behaviour, and a theology

Table of Contents

Preface Introduction1 Paganism as Religion2 Paganism as Behavior3 Paganism as Theology Notes References Index About the Author

About the Author

Michael York is Principal Lecturer, Sophia Centre for the Study of Cultural Astronomy and Astrology, and Director of the Bath Archive for Contemporary Religious Affairs, Bath Spa University College, UK.

Reviews

"Michael York's audacious redrawing of traditional religious boundaries and scholarly categories reaffirms paganism's place both as legitimate spiritual expression and as a field of academic inquiry." - Chas S. Clifton, Colorado State University-Pueblo "An ambitious book, one that argues and then demonstrates that paganism is an important religious perspective by tracing specific themes through a surprisingly wide variety of spiritual traditions. This is the first successful attempt to articulate a theology that is based on what paganism is, rather than on what it is not when compared to Judeo/Christian traditions. York's work is an important contribution to the study of religion in general, and foundational for the emerging field of Pagan Studies. It is the beginning of a whole new dialogue." - Wendy Griffin, editor of Daughters of the Goddess "Folk religionists and those interested in placing 'pagan phenomena' in the context of worldwide religiousity will find York's book interesting." --Missiology: An International Review "I have little doubt that it will reinvigorate not only the debate over the definition of religion but, perhaps more significantly, the debate over where one religion starts and another ends."--Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion "Scholarly, but wholly accessible."--Terry Gifford (University of Leeds) "This work will interest anyone investigating the nexus of science, social policy, and the law in modern America."--Sociology of Religion "Part travelogue, part theological argument, part sociological study, Michael York's Pagan Theology is a tour through paganism's multiple forms in space and time. York does an admirable job of making paganism visible as an important area of study in religion. Pagan Theology will appeal to an international audience of scholars and practitioners of Paganism, but should also be of interest to scholars of religion more broadly, since York examines paganism in a global context, and as it occurs within other world religions, as root religion."--The Pomegranate "York has collected a great diversity of global religious information to compare and contrast the fundamental and universal religious elements they contain. This appears to be his life work." --Journal of the American Academy of Religion "There is interesting and valuable information in Pagan Theory. The author has done his homework, and much of what he writes is taken from first-hand observation." --facingnorth.net ) "Michael York has laid the intellectual groundwork for a new approach to theology, one which hopefully might reconcile the appalling feuding ones of our time." --The Quest "York endeavors to demonstrate that paganism in its many varieties has an underlying unity." --Library Journal