{"id":1317,"date":"2010-02-26T00:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T00:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1317"},"modified":"2010-02-26T00:11:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T00:11:00","slug":"gallimaufry-with-chariots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1317","title":{"rendered":"Gallimaufry with Chariots"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2022 Icelandic Pagans curse the nation’s economic rivals<\/a>. See what happens when you mix polytheism and international banking? (Via Pagan Newswire Collective<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

\u2022 I do like what Iceland may do for freedom of the (online) press<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 We are the Empire, and we have the chariot-racing <\/a>to prove it. Video no. 2 is the better one. Go Greens<\/a>. (Via LawDog<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

\u2022 American pop culture is not keen on reincarnation as a plot device<\/a>?<\/p>\n

\u2022 Once again, Wicca as “the Other” gets tangled up with current political debate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2022 Icelandic Pagans curse the nation’s economic rivals. See what happens when you mix polytheism and international banking? (Via Pagan Newswire Collective.) \u2022 I do like what Iceland may do for freedom of the (online) press. \u2022 We are the Empire, and we have the chariot-racing to prove it. Video no. 2 is the better […]<\/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_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[106,5,109,6,12],"class_list":["post-1317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-iceland","tag-paganism","tag-reincarnation","tag-wicca","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-lf","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10006,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10006","url_meta":{"origin":1317,"position":0},"title":"Season of the Witch(crap), Part 1","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"December 3, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"When I look out my window, Many sights to see. And when I look in my window, So many different people to be That it's strange, so strange Strangeness. Back before there was an Internet, dear readers, I clipped and photocopied newspapers and magazine articles on Wicca, other Paganisms, etc.,\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\/12\/tumblr-witch-in-forest.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":144,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=144","url_meta":{"origin":1317,"position":1},"title":"Heresies Yesterday by the photocopier,\u2026","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"March 17, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Heresies Yesterday by the photocopier, Colleague A (Political Science) cornered me. She and Colleague B (Psychology) had been at the local Barnes & Noble store and seen the B&N edition of The Encyclopedia of Heresies and Heretics, which I wrote in 1991 when a friend was acquisitions editor at ABC-Clio\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":873,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=873","url_meta":{"origin":1317,"position":2},"title":"Wicca and Christianity","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"May 10, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I have not yet seen it, but English scholar Jo Pearson has a new book, Wicca and the Christian Heritage. Amazon-UK link here.From the publisher's catalog:What is Wicca? Is it witchcraft, Paganism, occultism, esotericism, magic, spirituality, mysticism, nature religion, secrecy, gnosis, the exotic or 'other'? Wicca has been defined by\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Christianity\"","block_context":{"text":"Christianity","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=christianity"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5113,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5113","url_meta":{"origin":1317,"position":3},"title":"Wicca, Recategorized by Librarians, Now by Booksellers as Well","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"January 19, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"In 2007, the\u00a0 news was that books on Wicca were re-categorized by the Library of Congress from BF (psychology, abnormal) to\u00a0 BP 600, a sort of catch-all for \"other beliefs and movements.\" A new Dewey Decimal number was assigned as well, for libraries using that system. Now the change is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"libraries\"","block_context":{"text":"libraries","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=libraries"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3707,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3707","url_meta":{"origin":1317,"position":4},"title":"Wicca without “Woo”","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"January 8, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I linked earlier to one of Eric Steinhart's series of discussions and critiques of Wicca from a non-theistic philosophical perspective. Here is the last, apparently, on Wicca without the \"woo\": It\u2019s probably not possible for Wicca to renounce the culture of woo.\u00a0 But an atheistic nature-religion in the United States\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":1293,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1293","url_meta":{"origin":1317,"position":5},"title":"Around the Pagan Blogosphere","author":"Chas S. 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