The Fifth Scientific-Theological Conference on the Study of Sects, featuring international speakers, was held recently at the Sretensky Theological Academy in Moscow, with as its main theme “Slavic ...

I can’t believe I am diving into this linguistic swamp again, but here goes. Recently, I’ve been engaging in some online discussions with polytheists and the “Pagan enough” debate was aroused, of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Give them that old-time religion — ancient religion — and then watch an exploding population of modern pagans give it contemporary twists. Their numbers ...

In this blog, I’ve written a lot about the similarities between Neo paganismand Shinto, because I think they really do have a lot more similarities than differences. But there are differences, which ...

A surprising genealogy of neopaganism. Type “burning times” into any major Internet search engine and you will be engulfed by a host of websites all telling essentially the same tale about the ...

Earlier this year, while doing research for another article, I found the term "witches Christmas" for Halloween. It first appeared on a calendar for the S.I.R. center in October 1967 and was taken as ...