{"id":13,"date":"2003-05-13T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-13T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=13"},"modified":"2012-01-07T13:52:46","modified_gmt":"2012-01-07T20:52:46","slug":"paganism-a-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=13","title":{"rendered":"Paganism: A Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"

What I hope was the last paper work for Graham Harvey’s and my new anthology, Paganism: A Reader<\/i> went into the campus mailbag today on its way to Routledge, the publisher. The book is a collection of mostly primary sources, so in that way it’s somewhat different from Graham’s earlier anthology, Shamanism: A Reader<\/a>. The selections in it begin with Classical materials, including “The Hymn to the Moon” (attributed to Homer) and the famous address to Isis from Apuleius’ The Golden Ass<\/i>, in Robert Graves’ translation. What I regret not being able to include (for reasons of space) was Sappho’s poem to Aphrodite, which I always find to be heart-wrenchingly good. But the Emperor Julian’s “Letter to a Pagan Priest” was included, as well as some translations from Celtic and Norse sources that have been important to the Pagan revival.<\/p>\n

We have tried to show just a few of the literary influences on the Pagan revival as well, such as Kipling’s Puck of Pook’s Hill<\/i>, Robert Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land<\/i>, and Marion Zimmer Bradley’s The Mists of Avalon<\/i>, as well as many well-known contemporary Pagan authors (Gardner, Valiente, Adler) and some new writers: Judy Harrow, Michael McNierney, and myself.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What I hope was the last paper work for Graham Harvey’s and my new anthology, Paganism: A Reader went into the campus mailbag today on its way to Routledge, the publisher. The book is a collection of mostly primary sources, so in that way it’s somewhat different from Graham’s earlier anthology, Shamanism: A Reader. 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