{"id":9843,"date":"2018-10-04T15:08:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T21:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=9843"},"modified":"2018-10-04T15:08:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T21:08:05","slug":"coming-soon-being-viking-heathenism-in-contemporary-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=9843","title":{"rendered":"Coming Soon \u2014 Being Viking: Heathenism in Contemporary America"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What do I like about Being Viking <\/em><\/a>beyond Mark Lee’s<\/a> arresting cover design? It is that author Jefferson Calico<\/a> can move beyond rehashing the folkish-universalist issue and look at some things not normally talked about, such as social class.<\/p>\n

Americans will talk you to death about race and ethnicity, but then turn around and pretend that the high-level university bureaucrat with a summer home on Martha’s Vineyard and the guy making a lot of overtime pay in a Texas oilfield are both earning “middle-class salaries.” While the English divide social-class issues with a microtome<\/a>, we pretend that we all aspire to the same thing.<\/p>\n

That is just one way that Being Viking <\/em>moves beyond the radical politics-obsessed approach taken by authors such as Jennifer Snook in American Heathens <\/em><\/a>or Mattias Gardell\u00a0 Gods of the Blood<\/em><\/a>. (If you look at Gardell’s publishing history, he jumps from one sensational topic to another.) Calico is strong on history, ritual, polytheism, and the social side of American Heathenry.<\/p>\n

So I am delighted this book is now being published in Equinox’s Contemporary and Historical Paganism series<\/a>, for which we are always seeking new titles.<\/p>\n

You can pre-order the book now or recommend it to your university library by clicking the buttons on its Equinox web page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What do I like about Being Viking beyond Mark Lee’s arresting cover design? It is that author Jefferson Calico can move beyond rehashing the folkish-universalist issue and look at some things not normally talked about, such as social class. 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