{"id":1954,"date":"2010-10-31T17:23:51","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T23:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1954"},"modified":"2010-11-01T04:56:40","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T10:56:40","slug":"the-pagan-studies-samhain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1954","title":{"rendered":"The Pagan Studies Samhain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our little celebration here at the American Academy of Religion<\/a> annual meeting, during which we Pagan scholars and friends discard our tweed jackets and switch to Samhain black, made it to The Huffington Post<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 (Scroll to the bottom.) Thanks, Grove, I think.<\/p>\n

It’s another example of how Wicca, in particular, is becoming the new Other in the religious landscape, elbowing aside the Jews, the Jehovah’s Witnesses, and anyone else who fills the blank of, “But how will the _________\u00a0 react?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our little celebration here at the American Academy of Religion annual meeting, during which we Pagan scholars and friends discard our tweed jackets and switch to Samhain black, made it to The Huffington Post.\u00a0 (Scroll to the bottom.) Thanks, Grove, I think. It’s another example of how Wicca, in particular, is becoming the new Other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,5,69],"class_list":["post-1954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-american-religion","tag-paganism","tag-samhain"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-vw","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":949,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=949","url_meta":{"origin":1954,"position":0},"title":"Today is Samhain, Really, Unless It’s Not","author":"Chas S. 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On the other hand, they did originally try to get me at Samhain, but someone messed up\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":757,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=757","url_meta":{"origin":1954,"position":4},"title":"Stopping the marching zombies","author":"Chas S. 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