{"id":10259,"date":"2019-03-03T12:10:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T19:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10259"},"modified":"2019-03-03T12:10:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T19:10:52","slug":"paganisms-grow-in-costa-rica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10259","title":{"rendered":"Paganism(s) Grow in Costa Rica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carrying on <a href=\"https:\/\/research-information.bristol.ac.uk\/en\/persons\/ronald-e-hutton(3db1ba2d-46a5-4387-8705-a6a3091b14ac).html\">Ronald Hutton&#8217;s<\/a> observation from some years back that Wicca (whatever exactly Wicca is) has become a world religion, here is an article on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Costa_Rica\">Costa Rican<\/a> Wiccans, Druids, Asatruar, and other Pagans. So they are are &#8220;world religions&#8221; now.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Costa Rica\u2019s indigenous communities have long practiced animism, but it was only in 2010 that the first formally organized pagan group, Kindred Irminsul, was formed. At least six more such pagan groups formed in the following three years. Since 2012, the multiple pagan groups have banded together to form broader partnerships. There\u2019s the Asociaci\u00f3n \u00c1satr\u00fa Yggdrasil de Costa Rica, a group self-described as \u201cdedicated to ancient Nordic and Scandinavian religious practices.\u201d Its membership has grown by 60 percent since 2013, says 31-year-old Esteban Sevilla, the group\u2019s president. There\u2019s also the Pagan Alliance of Costa Rica, which consists of Asatruar, Roman Reconstructionists, Wiccans and Druids. .\u00a0 . .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Petitioning the government for a formal religious status is not cheap. There\u2019s the cost of hiring lawyers to read over the paperwork, and the fees of submitting applications. Sevilla notes it could cost his group $1,000. \u201cWe\u2019re working on it,\u201d he says, \u201cbut it\u2019s expensive.\u201d The review process is long and bureaucratic. Sevilla and his colleagues need to prepare a statement detailing their activity, get a minimum of 50 member signatures \u2014 but the more signatories, the greater the likelihood of approval \u2014 and then draft and present the religious organization\u2019s statutes. The government can then take its time vetting the request.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ozy.com\/fast-forward\/pagans-step-out-of-the-shadows-in-sunny-costa-rica\/88620\">Read the whole thing.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carrying on Ronald Hutton&#8217;s observation from some years back that Wicca (whatever exactly Wicca is) has become a world religion, here is an article on Costa Rican Wiccans, Druids, Asatruar, and other Pagans. So they are are &#8220;world religions&#8221; now. Costa Rica\u2019s indigenous communities have long practiced animism, but it was only in 2010 that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[76,344,14,5,6],"class_list":["post-10259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-asatru","tag-costa-rica","tag-druidry","tag-paganism","tag-wicca"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-2Ft","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9750,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=9750","url_meta":{"origin":10259,"position":0},"title":"Central American Pagans, Wicca and #MeToo, and Good Writing","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"August 31, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\u2022 Costa Rica now has a Pagan presence: Asatru, Witches, and Druids: Think paganism [sic], and you probably don\u2019t think of a conservative, Catholic-majority country in Central America. But Costa Rica, with its beautiful beaches and tropical charm, is emerging as an unlikely base for a growing pagan movement battling\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Asatru\"","block_context":{"text":"Asatru","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=asatru"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1292,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1292","url_meta":{"origin":10259,"position":1},"title":"Canadian Pagan Conference Set for Guelph","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"January 25, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"News release:The Canadian National Pagan Conference brings together Canadian activists, clergy and scholars interested in the neo-Pagan and revived pagan religions in Canada. These include, but are not lmited to Goddess spirituality, Wicca, Asatru and the Heathen paths, Romuva, Druidry and the Afro-diasporic religions. A large part of the conference\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Canada\"","block_context":{"text":"Canada","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=canada"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":733,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=733","url_meta":{"origin":10259,"position":2},"title":"&#8216;Western Pagan Cult&#8217; Comes to India","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"October 6, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Wicca reaches India, reports The Telegraph of Calcutta. It's just a \"study group\" now, the paper says. (Sure!) There is a Web site, of course, which suggests that the organizers have been Wiccan for some years, in fact.A month after bisarjan, a western pagan cult worshipping the Mother Goddess looks\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10422,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10422","url_meta":{"origin":10259,"position":3},"title":"A Festschrift for Ronald Hutton","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"April 28, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Magic and Witchery: Celebrating the Twentieth Anniversary of 'The Triumph of the Moon' will be published in September by Palgrave Macmillan. I love rolling the word Festschrift around, and if you are not used to it, this is what it means: \"In academia, a Festschrift\u00a0 (plural Festschriften) is a book\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"academia\"","block_context":{"text":"academia","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=academia"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/magic-and-witchery-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":13637,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=13637","url_meta":{"origin":10259,"position":4},"title":"New Issue of The Pomegranate","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"May 11, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Links to articles from the newest issue of The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies, (vol. 24, no. 2). These articles are paywalled \u2014\u00a0but you know a librarian, don't you? If you don't, you should. \"The Religious Biographies of Polish Traditional Wiccans: Leaving the Catholic Church, Conversion to Wicca,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Paganism\"","block_context":{"text":"Paganism","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=paganism"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":974,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=974","url_meta":{"origin":10259,"position":5},"title":"Gallimaufry: It&#8217;s Traditional","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"January 23, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00b6 When an ill-informed blogger writes that \"Wicca Attempts to Control Life\" on a right-wing site, commenters weigh in. The gist: (a) religion has nothing to do with politics or (b) all religions are bogus. It's nice to see street-level libertarianism thriving.\u00b6 Maxine Sanders' new autobiography Fire Child: The life\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Asatru\"","block_context":{"text":"Asatru","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=asatru"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=chascli-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1869928784","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10259"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10261,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10259\/revisions\/10261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}