Executive Pagan

I want to start this series where I first noticed congruity between these two traditions - ritual pollution (miasma / kegare) and purification (katharsis / oharae). As throughout the series, I’m going to be looking at both ancient and modern Hellenismos and comparing them with modern Shinto - a somewhat limited perspective, I realize, but [...]

While organizing my thoughts for the Shinto series, I came across this absolutely amazing post (first in a series, even!) collecting a whole BUNCH of good links. Enjoy.

In the last year or two I have become very interested in Shinto, and in what I as a Hellenist can learn from the experience of a culture that has maintained their ancient traditional religion over thousands of years. However much it may have changed (and it has, quite a bit) over that time, the [...]

Kallistos has posted a very interesting thought piece on this question. Go and read!

Mahud at Between Old and New Moons is asking about paganism (thanks to Sara for the link). He has issued a general request for responses; this is mine.