Our community is divided over issues of sex and gender, often to the point of truly poisonous communications directed towards those with other points of view. In a way this division seems strange. Sex is a biological category. Gender is … Read more
Category: Spirit
Power, Evil, and the Crisis of Our Times: an animist view
Gus diZerega
Presented at the Conference on Current Pagan Studies, Jan. 25-6, 2020
In 2013 I published Faultlines: The 60s, the Culture War, and the Return of the Divine Feminine. Written largely in 2010, … Read more
Circles and Lines in “The Wolf at Twilight”
I was started along this line of thought while reading Kent Nerburn’s powerful, moving, painful and hauntingly beautiful The Wolf at Twilight: An Indian Elder’s Journey through a Land of Ghosts and Shadows. There are many levels to this … Read more
Social Justice from a Pagan Perspective
On January 23, 2016, I gave this paper as the keynote speaker at the Conference of Current Pagan Studies, in Claremont, California. It was well received and I want to make it available to anyone who is interested.
Social … Read more
What is Indigenaity in Religion?
With small changes this article appeared in The Interfaith Observer.
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Can indigenous peoples not practice indigenous religions? What if a non-indigenous person claims to practice their religion? Can people normally not considered indigenous have an indigenous religion? … Read more
Why Pagans aren’t much interested in theology compared to monotheists
Over at Witches and Pagans I have posted a piece explaining theology’s relatively unimportant role in Pagan religion compared to what it plays in Abrahamic ones.… Read more