{"id":12338,"date":"2021-07-22T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12338"},"modified":"2021-07-21T20:00:41","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T02:00:41","slug":"jefferson-calico-talks-heathenry-with-ethan-doyle-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12338","title":{"rendered":"Jefferson Calico Talks Heathenry with Ethan Doyle White"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Click over to Ethan Doyle White’s blog, Albion Calling<\/em>,\u00a0 to read a new interview with Jefferson Calico<\/a>, author of Being Viking: Heathenism in Contemporary America.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Since I acquired this book for Equinox Publishing’s Pagan studies book series<\/a>, I am happy to see it praised by an astute writer on Pagan history like Doyle White, who called it “one of two important works on American Heathenry that have appeared over the past decade.”<\/p>\n

A little bit about Calico’s scholarly journey is interesting:<\/p>\n

Many of us have experienced paradigm shifting moments during our educational journeys\u2014 those moments of discovery that unfold for us along new and unexpected paths. These moments arise from all sorts of stimuli\u2014disciplined reading, insights from our teachers, and from seemingly random \u201caha\u201d moments, to name a few. In my own journey, one of those moments came for me in reading Carole Cusack\u2019s Invented Religions<\/i><\/a> (Routledge, 2010) . .\u00a0 The cumulative effect of that book rescued me from a previously dismissive attitude about new religious movements and opened a new world of scholarly interest. I had entered my PhD program initially intending to pursue research on Islam. However, a conversation with my supervisor\u2014strangely enough about the 1994 Olympics hosted by Norway\u2014caused me to re-evaluate and drew my attention to the growing presence and influence of Paganism in the contemporary world. As I discuss in the introduction to Being Viking<\/i>,<\/a> an offhand question in a graduate seminar stirred my initial curiosity about Heathenry and led to it becoming a major interest. A chance conversation with a friend, Dr Thad Horrell, while walking to an American Academy of Religion (AAR) venue in San Diego led to a new line of inquiry and research that helped me to better understand the tributaries of American Heathenry.((You don’t get these experiences on Zoom.)) Rather than one over-riding passion, my interests and work have been nudged along by these sorts of important and transformative experiences.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read it all here, <\/a>including the part about being an “outsider” researcher at Heathen events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Click over to Ethan Doyle White’s blog, Albion Calling,\u00a0 to read a new interview with Jefferson Calico, author of Being Viking: Heathenism in Contemporary America. Since I acquired this book for Equinox Publishing’s Pagan studies book series, I am happy to see it praised by an astute writer on Pagan history like Doyle White, who […]<\/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":[137,76,57,130,4,12],"class_list":["post-12338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-academia","tag-asatru","tag-books","tag-heathenry","tag-scholarship","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-3d0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12100,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12100","url_meta":{"origin":12338,"position":0},"title":"Jefferson Calico, Author of “Being Viking,” Interviewed by Angela Puca","author":"Chas S. 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