{"id":493,"date":"2005-08-18T19:23:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-18T19:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=493"},"modified":"2005-08-18T19:23:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-18T19:23:00","slug":"493","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=493","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Pagan studies, nature religion at AAR-SBL<\/strong><\/p>\n

For anyone attending the annual meetings of the American Academy of Religion<\/a> and Society for Biblical Literature<\/a> in Philadelphia in November, here is a quick–and not necessarily definitive–list of the Pagan-studies sessions.<\/p>\n

First, the all-day Conference on Contemporary Pagan Studies<\/a>, which has been happening since 1998 in some form but is not an official program unit.<\/p>\n

The following program units have at least one Pagan-studies presenter, if not the entire panel:<\/p>\n

1. New Religious Movements Group and Contemporary Pagan Studies Consultation<\/span>, Saturday – 1:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m, Michael York, London, UK, presiding. Theme: Neo-Pagan Religions in Central and Eastern Europe: Identity, Community, and Challenge<\/span>.<\/p>\n

2. Platonism and Neoplatonism Group<\/span>, Sunday – 9:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m., Gregory Shaw, Stonehill College, presiding. Theme: Neoplatonism, Dead or Alive: Is Neoplatonism a Living Tradition? <\/span><\/p>\n

3. Death, Dying, and Beyond Consultation<\/span>, Sunday – 9:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m., Christopher M. Moreman, St. Francis Xavier University, presiding. Theme: Continuities and Discontinuities: Contemporary Cross-Cultural Approaches to the Study of Death<\/span>.<\/p>\n

4. New Religious Movements Group<\/span>, Sunday – 4:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m., Holly Folk, Indiana University, Bloomington, presiding. Theme: Theoretical Issues in the Study of NRMs and NRMs and Their Sacred Texts.<\/span><\/p>\n

5. Contemporary Pagan Studies Consultation<\/span>, Monday – 9:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m., Wendy Griffin, California State University, Long Beach, presiding. Theme: Boundaries and Paths to Authenticity.
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6. New Religious Movements Group<\/span>, Monday – 1:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m. Greg Johnson, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder, presiding. Theme: Devoted to the Outdoors: Nature Recreation as Religious Practice.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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