{"id":1880,"date":"2010-12-09T16:19:37","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T23:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1880"},"modified":"2010-12-09T16:36:32","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T23:36:32","slug":"the-thinness-of-pagan-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1880","title":{"rendered":"The “Thinness” of Pagan Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stephanie Drury’s blog Stuff Christian Culture Likes<\/em><\/a> (which, she admits, refers mostly to evangelical Protestant culture) is up to to 204 posts (the numbering is confusing because she sometimes recycles older posts).<\/p>\n

In contrast,\u00a0 the blog Stuff Pagan Culture Likes <\/em><\/a>seems to have hit a wall last March, with no new posts for six months. Too bad.<\/p>\n

Our “culture” is just a lot thinner, despite the fact that contemporary\u00a0 Pagans have been engaging in self-parody since Day 1. Consider some of the material that Isaac Bonewits produced in The Druid Chronicles <\/em>in the 1970s, for example. (Isaac, amazingly prescient, was already paying attention to chronologies and sources, knowing that future scholars would use his material.)<\/p>\n

Right now, on\u00a0 the academic side, I am feeling the “thinness” all too much. Submission to The Pomegranate<\/em><\/a> are down. (That could be related to the economy, as another journal editor told me that they have the same problem\u2014it’s a general gloominess.) I am reduced to sending plaintive emails halfway around the world: “Won’t you please revise and re-submit your papers?”<\/p>\n

And let’s not even talk about the academic job market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stephanie Drury’s blog Stuff Christian Culture Likes (which, she admits, refers mostly to evangelical Protestant culture) is up to to 204 posts (the numbering is confusing because she sometimes recycles older posts). In contrast,\u00a0 the blog Stuff Pagan Culture Likes seems to have hit a wall last March, with no new posts for six months. 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