{"id":50,"date":"2003-10-08T00:44:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-08T00:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=50"},"modified":"2011-08-22T12:16:10","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T18:16:10","slug":"smokey-and-the-sacred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"Smokey and the Sacred"},"content":{"rendered":"

My paper “Smokey and the Sacred: Nature Religion, Civil Religion, and American Paganism” has been accepted for a special issue of the journal Ecotheology<\/a>, edited by Graham Harvey.<\/p>\n

The publishing agreement, however, forbids me from publishing more than the abstract<\/a> online. (But maybe if you ask nicely.) I will supply a complete bibliographic citation to the printed copy as soon as it is available.<\/p>\n

Maybe it’s the first Pagan Studies paper to invoke Smokey Bear<\/a> as a godform, following the footsteps of Gary Snyder’s “Smokey the Bear Sutra<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

OK, so he is somewhat discredited as a forester in these “prescribed burn” days. Sometimes demigods have a come-down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My paper “Smokey and the Sacred: Nature Religion, Civil Religion, and American Paganism” has been accepted for a special issue of the journal Ecotheology, edited by Graham Harvey. The publishing agreement, however, forbids me from publishing more than the abstract online. (But maybe if you ask nicely.) 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