{"id":994,"date":"2008-03-11T02:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T02:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=994"},"modified":"2008-03-11T02:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-11T02:31:00","slug":"the-scholar-and-the-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=994","title":{"rendered":"The Scholar and the Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

The registration brochure for the big Pagan Spirit Gathering<\/a> in June came in the mail. I won’t be going, but I read it for general information and found this:<\/p>\n

Pagan Scholars who want to conduct Pagan Studies research at the Gathering as part of their participation must submit a research proposal by March 30, 2008 in order to be considered.<\/em><\/p>\n

An old joke<\/a> from the Navajo Reservation came to mind. You have to know that traditionally the Navajos were matrifocal–a man lived with his wife’s people.<\/p>\n

Q: What is a typical Navajo family?<\/p>\n

A: A grandmother, her daughter(s), their husbands, the kids, and an anthropologist.<\/em><\/p>\n

Are Pagan festivals these days that overrun with people handing out questionnaires? And what about the non-Pagan scholar studying Paganism?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The registration brochure for the big Pagan Spirit Gathering in June came in the mail. I won’t be going, but I read it for general information and found this: Pagan Scholars who want to conduct Pagan Studies research at the Gathering as part of their participation must submit a research proposal by March 30, 2008 […]<\/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":[],"tags":[5,4],"class_list":["post-994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-paganism","tag-scholarship"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-g2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":676,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=676","url_meta":{"origin":994,"position":0},"title":"Let's drop 'Neopagan'Back in the\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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