{"id":9750,"date":"2018-08-31T20:22:41","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T02:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=9750"},"modified":"2018-09-02T07:45:07","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T13:45:07","slug":"central-american-pagans-and-other-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=9750","title":{"rendered":"Central American Pagans, Wicca and #MeToo, and Good Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Costa_Rica\">\u2022 Costa Rica<\/a> now has a Pagan presence: Asatru, Witches, and Druids:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Think paganism [<em>sic<\/em>], and you probably don\u2019t think of a conservative, Catholic-majority country in Central America. But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ozy.com\/fast-forward\/pagans-step-out-of-the-shadows-in-sunny-costa-rica\/88620\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Costa Rica<\/a>, with its beautiful beaches and tropical charm, is emerging as an unlikely base for a growing pagan movement battling stereotypes and discrimination to assert its distinct identity. Denied the status of adhering to an official religion, pagans here have long been pushed to the fringes of society. Now, they\u2019re pushing back, and publicly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2022 I was interviewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/08\/16\/nyregion\/witchcraft-in-the-metoo-era.html\">for this article<\/a> last January or February. The writer said she was a student at Columbia University, and <em>all<\/em> that she was interested in was Wicca-as-empowering-young women. (Too bad for the headline that #MeToo has had its fifteen minutes of fame.) Oh well, it&#8217;s good to see <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.equinoxpub.com\/index.php\/POM\"><em>The Pomegranate<\/em><\/a> name-checked in the <em>New York Times.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 I find <em>The Wild Hunt <\/em>less and less interesting these days as a venue for Pagan culture \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/wildhunt.org\/2018\/08\/column-triptych.html\">except when Eric Scott&#8217;s writing appears in it. Then it&#8217;s good.<\/a> <strong>CORRECTION:<\/strong> The piece was by Luke Babb. My error. It&#8217;s still good! (I blame the influences of the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=9757\">Undisclosed Location<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Costa Rica now has a Pagan presence: Asatru, Witches, and Druids: Think paganism [sic], and you probably don\u2019t think of a conservative, Catholic-majority country in Central America. But Costa Rica, with its beautiful beaches and tropical charm, is emerging as an unlikely base for a growing pagan movement battling stereotypes and discrimination to assert [&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":[76,344,14,6,12],"class_list":["post-9750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-asatru","tag-costa-rica","tag-druidry","tag-wicca","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-2xg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10259,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10259","url_meta":{"origin":9750,"position":0},"title":"Paganism(s) Grow in Costa Rica","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"March 3, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Carrying on Ronald Hutton's observation from some years back that Wicca (whatever exactly Wicca is) has become a world religion, here is an article on Costa Rican Wiccans, Druids, Asatruar, and other Pagans. So they are are \"world religions\" now. Costa Rica\u2019s indigenous communities have long practiced animism, but it\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Asatru\"","block_context":{"text":"Asatru","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=asatru"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1839,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1839","url_meta":{"origin":9750,"position":1},"title":"Two Surveys on Pagans and Politics","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"October 10, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"A Pagan professor friend, Michael Strmiska, is researching political attitudes among American Pagans and Heathens. He has created two brief surveys on Survey Monkey and invites to you take one of them from the appropriate category: If you follow an Asatru or related path, take this survey. If you follow\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 2 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 2 comments","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1839#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1292,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1292","url_meta":{"origin":9750,"position":2},"title":"Canadian Pagan Conference Set for Guelph","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"January 25, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"News release:The Canadian National Pagan Conference brings together Canadian activists, clergy and scholars interested in the neo-Pagan and revived pagan religions in Canada. These include, but are not lmited to Goddess spirituality, Wicca, Asatru and the Heathen paths, Romuva, Druidry and the Afro-diasporic religions. A large part of the conference\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Canada\"","block_context":{"text":"Canada","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=canada"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13637,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=13637","url_meta":{"origin":9750,"position":3},"title":"New Issue of The Pomegranate","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"May 11, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Links to articles from the newest issue of The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies, (vol. 24, no. 2). These articles are paywalled \u2014\u00a0but you know a librarian, don't you? If you don't, you should. \"The Religious Biographies of Polish Traditional Wiccans: Leaving the Catholic Church, Conversion to Wicca,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Paganism\"","block_context":{"text":"Paganism","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=paganism"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10035,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10035","url_meta":{"origin":9750,"position":4},"title":"Season of the Witch(crap), Part 3","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"December 5, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Season of the Witch(crap), Part 1\" \"Season of the Witch(crap), Part 2\" \"Witchcrap\": superficial journalistic treatments of Wicca, Witchcraft, and related Pagan paths. \u2022 In The Atlantic,\"Young black women are leaving Christianity and embracing African witchcraft in digital covens.\" Except the article discusses a convention and gets to the digital\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"American religion\"","block_context":{"text":"American religion","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=american-religion"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/mercator.jpeg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/mercator.jpeg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/mercator.jpeg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":974,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=974","url_meta":{"origin":9750,"position":5},"title":"Gallimaufry: It&#8217;s Traditional","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"January 23, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00b6 When an ill-informed blogger writes that \"Wicca Attempts to Control Life\" on a right-wing site, commenters weigh in. The gist: (a) religion has nothing to do with politics or (b) all religions are bogus. It's nice to see street-level libertarianism thriving.\u00b6 Maxine Sanders' new autobiography Fire Child: The life\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Asatru\"","block_context":{"text":"Asatru","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=asatru"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=chascli-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1869928784","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9750"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9763,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9750\/revisions\/9763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}