{"id":8340,"date":"2016-11-26T10:19:18","date_gmt":"2016-11-26T17:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8340"},"modified":"2016-11-26T10:20:18","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T17:20:18","slug":"thoughts-on-pagan-studies-after-the-2016-aar-meeting-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8340","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on Pagan Studies after the 2016 AAR Meeting (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the 15th through the 23rd, I was either on the road or attending the annual joint meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature.((Despite its name, it does offer occasional sessions that touch on ancient Pagan religions in the Roman empire.)) I refer to it as either “10,000 introverts”((9,500 this year)) or “my social life for the year.”<\/p>\n

Christine Hoff Kraemer<\/a> switched hats this year, and instead of presenting, wrote a summary of the Contemporary Pagan Studies Group’s sessions for The Wild Hunt<\/em>, and you should go read it.<\/a><\/p>\n

As she said, it is my last year as co-chair; we serve a three-year term, renewable once, so I am term-limited. This autumn I had been savoring a sense of relief that I was finished. I was more than ready to pass the responsibility of report-writing and session-organizing to new people. (Since my co-chair lives in Norway, I wound up with most of the bureaucratic responsibilities.)<\/p>\n

And then when we had our steering committee meeting to start working on next year’s session, I suddenly had a mild attack of “empty-classroom syndrome,” what you feel at the end of every teaching year, even if you too cannot wait to get out the door, just like the students. I was suddenly a has-been. No more VIP blue ribbon on my name tag!<\/p>\n

But life goes on. I invented a new job for myself, collecting archival information on the group \u2014 now eleven years old \u2014 to help for our next five-year-review. For complicated AAR reasons, the last one was not in 2015, as you might think if you just counted years.<\/p>\n

There is all this stuff dumped on my desk: program book, notebooks with notes about books to look for,\u00a0 information to send to Person X, and ideas for writing.<\/p>\n

I talked with a couple of editors in the field of new religious movements about the archive on the Wiccan murder case that I aquired last August<\/a>, and they were encouraging that it could be a conference presentation and maybe a journal article. I am still not sure how to treat it beyond journalistically; it does not feel like an obvious “new religious movements and violence” thing, but maybe some critical approach will make itself known if I just start writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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