{"id":8023,"date":"2016-05-12T14:31:50","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T20:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8023"},"modified":"2016-05-12T14:59:52","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T20:59:52","slug":"being-an-oxbridge-scholar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8023","title":{"rendered":"Being an “Oxbridge Scholar”"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Yesterday’s mail brought my contributor’s copy of The Cambridge Handbook of Western Mysticism and Esotericism<\/a><\/em>\"\", to which I contributed an article on contemporary Paganism.<\/p>\n

There ought to be a long German compound word for “fear of looking at something you wrote several years ago.”<\/p>\n

The back cover of this hefty (2.5 lbs.; 958 g.) volume has the usual blurbs, such as this one from Jeffrey Kripal<\/a>, whose work I admire: “[Editor] Glenn Magee has brought together a dream team of scholars . . <\/a>. ”<\/p>\n

Then, of course, the voice of doubt: “He didn’t mean you.<\/em>” But I will take the reflected glory of some of the big names and rising stars in the field, people like Antoine Favre, Joscelyn Godwin, Olav Hammer, Wouter Hanegraaff, Egil Asprem, Hereward Tilton, Hugh Urban, Kocku von Stuckrad, Cathy Gutierrez, Lee Irwin, and many others.<\/p>\n

\"\"Online, you can read the table of contents<\/a>, front matter<\/a>, and index<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * * * *<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Meanwhile, I mentioned earlier my struggle to have Paganism capitalized<\/a> in my entry on same for the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion. <\/a><\/p>\n

Some of its entries on are online at that link (not mine as yet). It is a religion nerd’s paradise. Right now the featured online article is “Festivals in Ancient Greece and Rome”<\/a> by Fritz Graf. (In the entries I have looked at, no one else fought for the capital P.)<\/p>\n

So it hit me that although I have yet to set foot at either of the ancient universities of Oxford and Cambridge, I have \u2014 in a small way \u2014 been published by both of their university presses. Sitting here in my little house in the pines, that is an odd and interesting thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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