{"id":11,"date":"2003-04-30T20:19:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-30T20:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11"},"modified":"2003-04-30T20:19:00","modified_gmt":"2003-04-30T20:19:00","slug":"sacred-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"Sacred Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rediscovering America’s Sacred Ground<\/a>, subtitled “Public religion and the pursuit of good,” will be on my reading list as soon as SUNY Press releases it. The author is Pagan scholar Barbara McGraw, who “examines the debate about the role of religion in American public life and unravels the confounded rhetoric on all sides. She reveals that no group has been standing on proper ground and that all sides have misused terminology (religion\/secular), dichotomies (public\/private), and concepts (separation of church and state) in ways that have little relevance to the original intentions of the Founders.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rediscovering America’s Sacred Ground, subtitled “Public religion and the pursuit of good,” will be on my reading list as soon as SUNY Press releases it. The author is Pagan scholar Barbara McGraw, who “examines the debate about the role of religion in American public life and unravels the confounded rhetoric on all sides. She reveals […]<\/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":[],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-american-religion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-b","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9057,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=9057","url_meta":{"origin":11,"position":0},"title":"Can You Put Your Paganism in the Street?","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"March 14, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Late last year, I read this in the Pueblo Chieftain newspaper: \"Pueblo Church Walks and Prays over Every Walkable Street in the City.\" About a year ago, the Rev. Jim Murray had a vision. In that vision, members of his church, the First Church of the Nazarene, 84 Stanford Ave.,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"American religion\"","block_context":{"text":"American religion","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=american-religion"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/union-ave.-1-2017-1024x936.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/union-ave.-1-2017-1024x936.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/union-ave.-1-2017-1024x936.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/union-ave.-1-2017-1024x936.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":35,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=35","url_meta":{"origin":11,"position":1},"title":"‘Sacred’ but not ‘Religious’","author":"Chas S. 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Clifton","date":"December 17, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00b6 Professor Ronald Hutton talks about his career and admits \u2014 in public \u2014 that writing The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft actually harmed it for a time. \"Reframing Modern Paganism\" in Pagan Dawn magazine. \u00b6 Heat Street, a political news site, notes the growth\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Colorado\"","block_context":{"text":"Colorado","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=colorado"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=soutrocknatub-20&l=am2&o=1&a=0192854496","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2333,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2333","url_meta":{"origin":11,"position":4},"title":"Gallimaufry in Eden","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"February 5, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"\u2022 At the Religion in American History blog: What Puritans, Shakers, beer, and running shoes have in common. \u2022 Is The Decembrists' The King is Dead their most Pagan-friendly album? Laura at The Juggler thinks so. \u2022 It is true that religion scholars go on and on about \"the sacred.\"\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"American religion\"","block_context":{"text":"American religion","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=american-religion"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":95,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=95","url_meta":{"origin":11,"position":5},"title":"Ecotheology recognizes Paganism Graham Harvey\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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