{"id":7277,"date":"2015-06-13T19:20:49","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T01:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7277"},"modified":"2015-06-13T19:20:49","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T01:20:49","slug":"tv-pagans-looking-good-or-at-least-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7277","title":{"rendered":"TV Pagans Looking Good \u2013 or at Least Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the abstract to Robert A. Saunder&#8217;s paper &#8220;Primetime Paganism: Popular-Culture Representations of Europhilic Polytheism in <em>Game of Thrones<\/em> and <em>Vikings<\/em>,&#8221; reprinted at Medievalists.net, in which he argues two points:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>First, that traditional filmic treatments of pagans [<em>sic<\/em>] <em>qua<\/em> villains is shifting, with contemporary popular culture allowing for more nuanced framing of Western forms of polytheism. Secondly, that such popular-culture representations of paganism have direct impact on certain contemporary Pagans\u2019 personal spiritual paths by promoting and influencing the \u201cinvention of tradition\u201d among a population which manifests non-traditional religious identities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.medievalists.net\/2015\/06\/07\/primetime-paganism-popular-culture-representations-of-europhilic-polytheism-in-game-of-thrones-and-vikings\/\">Read the rest.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the abstract to Robert A. Saunder&#8217;s paper &#8220;Primetime Paganism: Popular-Culture Representations of Europhilic Polytheism in Game of Thrones and Vikings,&#8221; reprinted at Medievalists.net, in which he argues two points: First, that traditional filmic treatments of pagans [sic] qua villains is shifting, with contemporary popular culture allowing for more nuanced framing of Western forms of [&hellip;]<\/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":[5,40,153],"class_list":["post-7277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-paganism","tag-polytheism","tag-television"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-1Tn","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6297,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6297","url_meta":{"origin":7277,"position":0},"title":"Cross-Cultural Collection on Popular Religion Includes Paganism","author":"Chas S. 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