It is not a surprise that as it was being founded, Neopaganism looked to an imagined pastoral and pre-industrial way of life as an inspiration.
Modern Paganism's inaugural moment in the United States, about 50 years ago in the late 1960s into the mid-1970s, occurred at the same time that the Romantic idealizations of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and Dungeons and Dragons and Renaissance Faires and the newly created fantasy genre and the rosy aspirations of the "back to the land" movement were taking over the aesthetic and emotional landscape of young people: particularly smart, geeky college students of the exact demographic which eventually became the Neopagan base.
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There is an interfaith organization in California called PICO-CA (the PICO used to be an acronym, but I can't find for what; proba
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Thanks for your comment. >Also here's an important advocacy question, for protection against religious discrimination do non-thei
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To be honest, religion in general isn't covered much by the media, and when it is covered it tends to be framed in particular ways
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You make some very good points. I also think, there might be more people considering paganism, if they didn't have this picture of
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Indeed! And we need more of us. More of the Earth-lovers. More of the justice-seekers. More of the kindness-dealers.