{"id":5550,"date":"2013-05-31T12:23:54","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T18:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5550"},"modified":"2013-05-31T12:23:54","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T18:23:54","slug":"two-important-new-books-in-pagan-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5550","title":{"rendered":"Two Important New Books in Pagan Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Modern Pagan and Native Faith Movements in Central and Eastern Europe,<\/em> edited by Kaarina Aitamurto and Scott Simpson, has now been released in hardcover. (No paperback edition appears to be coming in the near future.)<\/p>\n

You can read the complete table of contents and see ordering information at Acumen<\/a>\"\"<\/a> Publishing’s website.<\/a><\/p>\n

Also being released in June \u2014 Pop Pagans: Pagans and Popular Music<\/em>,<\/a> with contributions from some of the people on my blogroll, I am happy to say.<\/p>\n

The same publishing arrangement applies, one of the reasons that my series co-editor and I said farewell to Acumen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Modern Pagan and Native Faith Movements in Central and Eastern Europe, edited by Kaarina Aitamurto and Scott Simpson, has now been released in hardcover. (No paperback edition appears to be coming in the near future.) You can read the complete table of contents and see ordering information at Acumen Publishing’s website. 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