{"id":6519,"date":"2014-06-09T09:17:54","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T15:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6519"},"modified":"2014-06-12T13:48:39","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T19:48:39","slug":"around-the-blogosphere-a-pagan-cat-multiple-souls-and-idolatry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6519","title":{"rendered":"Around the Blogosphere: A Pagan Cat, Multiple Souls, and Idolatry"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00b6 “I don’t want to be rude, but what religion are you?” A Pagan pet’s name produces confusion at the veterinary clinic.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00b6\u00a0\u00a0 “The Three\/Four Souls and Their Afterlives<\/a>.” Heather at Eaarth Animist\u00a0<\/em>looks at different traditional accounts to learn what might explain her own experiences: “It has baffled many Western anthropologists how a studied people can talk about a dead person being reincarnated in a child and also being an ancestor. The problem comes from the anthropologist\u2019s own Christian idea of one soul.”<\/p>\n

\u00b6 Added to the blogroll under “Classics”:\u00a0 Roman Times: An online magazine about current archaeology and classical research into the lives of inhabitants of the Roman Empire and Byzantium<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u00b6 Scholar of esotericism Wouter Hanegraaf from the University of Amstersdam discovers a solid book on idolatry as a category within monotheistic religions<\/a>: “One searches practically in vain for authoritative monographs about the notion of idolatry and its significance in monotheist religions generally.” There are some contemporary scholars of Paganism working on that area too, but maybe not enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00b6 “I don’t want to be rude, but what religion are you?” A Pagan pet’s name produces confusion at the veterinary clinic. \u00b6\u00a0\u00a0 “The Three\/Four Souls and Their Afterlives.” Heather at Eaarth Animist\u00a0looks at different traditional accounts to learn what might explain her own experiences: “It has baffled many Western anthropologists how a studied people […]<\/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":[214,96,164,56],"class_list":["post-6519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-animals","tag-death","tag-idolatry","tag-rome"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-1H9","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7450,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7450","url_meta":{"origin":6519,"position":0},"title":"Khalid al-Asaad and the War on Pagan Idolatry","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"August 20, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Wouter Hanegraaff, professsor of Western esotericism at the University of Amsterdam, has written a moving blog post on larger implications of the death of Khalid al-Asaad, the Syrian archaeologist recently beheaded by the Muslim fighters of the so-called Islamic State. (He was a Muslim too, of course.) We are told\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"archaeology\"","block_context":{"text":"archaeology","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=archaeology"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2405,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2405","url_meta":{"origin":6519,"position":1},"title":"The Pomegranate 12:1","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"February 26, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I have let weeks go by without mentioning the latest issue of The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies! Here is the table of contents. All book reviews and article abstracts are free. 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