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\"\"<\/a>Four toppings this evening. . .<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 This made me laugh<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Some occult-cult films from the past reviewed by Peg Aloi<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Teaching a course in “world religions” is not as simple as it looks, once you start sorting out “religion,” “religious,” and questions of group identity.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 In the “Finding a God” chapter of Triumph of the Moon<\/em><\/a>, Ronald Hutton describes the rise of Pan in Victorian<\/a> literature. Sometimes he personified an idealized countryside while at others he was “a battering-ram against respectability.” He appears in America during that period too \u2014 this time as sculpture.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Four toppings this evening. . . \u2022 This made me laugh. \u2022 Some occult-cult films from the past reviewed by Peg Aloi. \u2022 Teaching a course in “world religions” is not as simple as it looks, once you start sorting out “religion,” “religious,” and questions of group identity. \u2022 In the “Finding a God” chapter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[137,36,48,337,40],"class_list":["post-4161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-academia","tag-movies","tag-nature-religion","tag-pentagram-pizza","tag-polytheism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-157","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4754,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4754","url_meta":{"origin":4161,"position":0},"title":"Pentagram Pizza: Buy It by the Slice in the Occult City","author":"Chas S. 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