{"id":14218,"date":"2026-03-07T14:48:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T21:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=14218"},"modified":"2026-03-07T14:48:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T21:48:45","slug":"upcoming-zoom-with-robin-douglas-sasha-chaitow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=14218","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Zoom with Robin Douglas, Sasha Chaitow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Two leading scholars of contemporary Paganism will be live on Zoom this weekend: Robin Douglas has a book in press with the Equinox series on Pagan studies: The Pagan Revival A Documentary History of Modern Paganism, 1700-1950<\/em><\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sasha Chaitow is also widely published, including in The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies<\/em>. Lately she has focused on is an independent scholar of Greek cultural history whose work focuses on ancient, Byzantine, and modern traditions. She is the author of\u00a0Son of Prometheus<\/a><\/em>, a new study of Horapollon\u2019s\u00a0Hieroglyphica<\/a><\/em>, and forthcoming studies of Byzantine demonology and of living Greek magic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can find earlier podcasts in the Coming to the Center <\/em>series on Cherry Hill’s YouTube channel.<\/a> This Sunday’s podcast should turn up there later. There is even one of me (looking sleepy out on the front porch) from 2024 and running on about contemporary Paganism. <\/a>
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Two leading scholars of contemporary Paganism will be live on Zoom this weekend: Robin Douglas has a book in press with the Equinox series on Pagan studies: The Pagan Revival A Documentary History of Modern Paganism, 1700-1950. Sasha Chaitow is also widely published, including in The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies. 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