{"id":6090,"date":"2013-11-06T10:35:46","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T17:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6090"},"modified":"2013-11-06T14:15:46","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T21:15:46","slug":"conferences-of-interest-to-scholars-of-paganism-and-esotericism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6090","title":{"rendered":"Conferences of Interest to Scholars of Paganism and Esotericism"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00b6\u00a0 The 6th Israeli Conference for the Study of Contemporary Religion and Spirituality<\/a> (PDF) includes some Pagan-friendly themes.<\/p>\n

\u00b6 The Association for the Study of Esotericism will meet in June at Colgate University in upstate New York.\u00a0 <\/a>Egil Asprem has more to say about that one.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00b6 The Conference on Current Pagan Studies<\/a>, held in Claremont, Calif., will be held on Feb. 8\u20139, 2014. More information will be forthcoming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00b6\u00a0 The 6th Israeli Conference for the Study of Contemporary Religion and Spirituality (PDF) includes some Pagan-friendly themes. \u00b6 The Association for the Study of Esotericism will meet in June at Colgate University in upstate New York.\u00a0 Egil Asprem has more to say about that one. \u00b6 The Conference on Current Pagan Studies, held in […]<\/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":[137,89,5,4],"class_list":["post-6090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-academia","tag-esotericism","tag-paganism","tag-scholarship"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-1Ae","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8422,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8422","url_meta":{"origin":6090,"position":0},"title":"CFP: Irish Network for the Study of Esotericism and Paganism","author":"Chas S. 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