{"id":24,"date":"2003-07-10T14:54:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-10T14:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=24"},"modified":"2003-07-10T14:54:00","modified_gmt":"2003-07-10T14:54:00","slug":"the-paganism-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"The Paganism Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"

A telephone call from Graham Harvey on the 9th confirms that our anthology of important Pagan texts is going into production at Routledge. Here is the latest version of the cover–really, Graham’s name should come first, as it was his idea to collect important texts from the Pagan revival, reaching back to the Homeric Hymns, the Eddas, the Mabinogion and others, and also collecting such things as Rudyard Kipling’s song that begins “Do not tell the priest of our art,” from Puck of Pook’s Hill<\/i>, which when I first encountered it was presented to me as a genuine relic of underground Pagan religion! (I had not read that particular book of Kipling’s, and I did not know better.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A telephone call from Graham Harvey on the 9th confirms that our anthology of important Pagan texts is going into production at Routledge. Here is the latest version of the cover–really, Graham’s name should come first, as it was his idea to collect important texts from the Pagan revival, reaching back to the Homeric Hymns, […]<\/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":[],"tags":[5,4,12],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-paganism","tag-scholarship","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-o","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=13","url_meta":{"origin":24,"position":0},"title":"Paganism: A Reader","author":"Chas S. 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We Wiccans\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"blogging\"","block_context":{"text":"blogging","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11803,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11803","url_meta":{"origin":24,"position":5},"title":"Book to Explore Paganism in Early Modern Lithuania","author":"Chas S. 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