{"id":4323,"date":"2012-06-01T09:44:16","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T15:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4323"},"modified":"2012-06-01T09:59:53","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T15:59:53","slug":"essential-pagan-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4323","title":{"rendered":"“Essential” Pagan Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

The trouble with book lists \u2014 like this list of “27 essential Pagan books” <\/a>\u2014 is that no two readers’ lists are the same.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, I am pretty pleased with number 16.<\/a><\/p>\n

And I am happy to see Michael Strmiska getting some recognition too<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The trouble with book lists \u2014 like this list of “27 essential Pagan books” \u2014 is that no two readers’ lists are the same. On the other hand, I am pretty pleased with number 16. And I am happy to see Michael Strmiska getting some recognition too.<\/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":[5,7,4],"class_list":["post-4323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-paganism","tag-publishing","tag-scholarship"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-17J","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4920,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4920","url_meta":{"origin":4323,"position":0},"title":"End of Year Lists: Books, Movies","author":"Chas S. 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Clifton","date":"December 21, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Barbara Jane Davy, author of Introduction to Pagan Studies (The Pagan Studies Series) has a new edited collection out of source documents for Pagan studies.Paganism (Critical Concepts in Religious Studies) lists on Amazon at an \"institutional\" price, like the other edited collection that I recently mentioned.From the publisher's site:This new\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Paganism\"","block_context":{"text":"Paganism","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=paganism"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1911,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1911","url_meta":{"origin":4323,"position":2},"title":"The Horror! The Horror!","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"October 23, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"At The Witching Hour, Peg surveys some lists of best Halloween films. 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