{"id":3298,"date":"2011-10-14T13:01:34","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T19:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3298"},"modified":"2011-10-14T13:01:34","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T19:01:34","slug":"academic-work-on-paganism-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3298","title":{"rendered":"Academic Work on Paganism in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ph-freiburg.de\/en\/soziologie\/lehrende\/dr-rene-gruender.html\">Ren\u00e9 Gr\u00fcnder<\/a> shared a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.igpp.de\/english\/eks\/buchreihe_e.htm\">a monograph series that includes work on contemporary Paganism and shamanism<\/a>. Information in English, but the books themselves are available only in German.<\/p>\n<p>His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ph-freiburg.de\/en\/soziologie\/lehrende\/dr-rene-gruender.html\">web page<\/a> also contains links to some articles in English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ren\u00e9 Gr\u00fcnder shared a link to a monograph series that includes work on contemporary Paganism and shamanism. Information in English, but the books themselves are available only in German. 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