{"id":12100,"date":"2021-03-07T16:44:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T23:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12100"},"modified":"2021-03-07T16:44:07","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T23:44:07","slug":"jefferson-calico-author-of-being-viking-interviewed-by-angela-puca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12100","title":{"rendered":"Jefferson Calico, Author of &#8220;Being Viking,&#8221; Interviewed by Angela Puca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UwK50_2DQwA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Angela Puca, who recently earned a PhD in religious studies while <em>still\u00a0<\/em>managing to be a dominant figure in Pagan-studies YouTube, has interviewed Jefferson Calico, author of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3kRG5CB\">Being Viking: Heathenism in Contemporary America<\/a>,<\/em> which I consider to be the best new study of Heathenry that is accessible to both scholars and practitioners. But as one of the editors, I am biased.<\/p>\n<p>In case you wonder about &#8220;Heathenism&#8221; versus &#8220;Heathenry,&#8221; he gets into that at the beginning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angela Puca, who recently earned a PhD in religious studies while still\u00a0managing to be a dominant figure in Pagan-studies YouTube, has interviewed Jefferson Calico, author of Being Viking: Heathenism in Contemporary America, which I consider to be the best new study of Heathenry that is accessible to both scholars and practitioners. But as one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[76,130,299],"class_list":["post-12100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-asatru","tag-heathenry","tag-pagan-studies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-39a","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12142,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12142","url_meta":{"origin":12100,"position":0},"title":"Great Review for Calico&#8217;s &#8220;Being Viking&#8221;","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"March 31, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"I was happy to see Being Vking: Heathenism in Contemporary America get a good review in Reading Religion, which is the American Academy of Religion's online book-review site. Michael Strmiska (currently teaching in Latvia) writes, Being Viking deserves great praise and wide readership as an extremely detailed and well-researched historical\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\/2021\/03\/viking-200x300.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":12338,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12338","url_meta":{"origin":12100,"position":1},"title":"Jefferson Calico Talks Heathenry with Ethan Doyle White","author":"Chas S. 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