
“Paganism and Its Others, a double issue that has been in the works for rather a long time, is finally published, including, among other things, discussion of Pagan-identified units on both sides of the Ukraine invasion and also perhaps the definitive (so far) article on Czech Pagan black metal music.
Here is the introduction by guest editor Michael Strmiska (free download).
You will find links to all the articles here.
But they are expensive, you say. You do have choices. Are you at a university with a religious studies program? If you are on the faculty, suggest a Pomegranate subscription to your library, and all the students will get online access. If you are not a professor, try to persuade a professor to recommend it to the library. Or use interlibrary loan; you should be able to that online nowadays.
If you visit a publicly supported college or university, you may still have interlibrary loan privileges as a “community member.” And even small public libraries are plugged into networks with access to all kinds of materials. Just ask. You might be surprised.
Finally, the online article preview will provide info about the author’s whereabouts. Universities have online directories in most cases. Sometimes a polite email explaining your interest in someone’s article might just get you a PDF.
With all good will due to “The Pomegranate,” why do we have to read “But they are expensive, you say. You do have choices.” Why didn’t the publishers just put it on the Akashik Record, and then give us the code and they key to the bus locker where the documents have been hidden? This is just the post-modernist, de-de-constructivist trend that has complicated all our lives with its overly-profound simplicity.