{"id":1226,"date":"2009-10-17T02:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T02:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2009-10-17T02:52:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-17T02:52:00","slug":"that-theodish-political-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1226","title":{"rendered":"That Theodish Political Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sarah Pike<\/a> of California State University, Chico evaluates Dan Halloran’s run for a New York City Council seat as an “out” Pagan <\/a>and concludes, “Since for many Americans, the Republican Party is inseparable from conservative Christianity, Neopagans were surprised that the party stood by Halloran, and took it as a sign that not only is the makeup of the religious left and the religious right shifting, but that the country as a whole is becoming more receptive toward their religion.”<\/p>\n

I’ll be seeing Sarah next month at the American Academy of Religion annual meeting, and I shall have to ask her about this “Neopagan” usage. Following Graham Harvey<\/a>, who argues that “Neo-” is outmoded now, the favored term (in academia, at least) is “contemporary Pagan.”<\/p>\n

But she has written a good opinion piece\u2014read the whole thing. The comments display the usual Pagan hair-splitting and in-fighting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sarah Pike of California State University, Chico evaluates Dan Halloran’s run for a New York City Council seat as an “out” Pagan and concludes, “Since for many Americans, the Republican Party is inseparable from conservative Christianity, Neopagans were surprised that the party stood by Halloran, and took it as a sign that not only is […]<\/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":[10,5,79],"class_list":["post-1226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-american-religion","tag-paganism","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-jM","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13604,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=13604","url_meta":{"origin":1226,"position":0},"title":"Four Notable Books in Pagan Studies","author":"Chas S. 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