2005 Conference on Contemporary Pagan Studies
Call for Papers |
Revisioning the Past:
Reconstructionism, Revitalization and Ethnicity
November 18th, 2005
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| This year we will be focusing on contemporary Pagans who base their religiosity specifically on the religious and social forms of a particular cultural and/or historical group. In some instances this will be in an effort to recover and revitalize a past that is directly linked to the place and culture in which the individual lives. In other cases the group that the Pagan attempts to emulate and reconstruct will have no direct link to individual genetic or cultural heritage. |
| In either case the issues surrounding attempts to reconstruct what was done in past times and make that reconstruction a living, vital religiosity are an important part of our understanding of how contemporary Paganism functions in the modern world. |
| Registration for this year's conference is $25 per person. You can register for the 2005 Conference on Contemporary Pagan Studies on-line. |
| If you have any questions you can email Cat at cat@paganstudies.org |
2005 Conference on Contemporary Pagan Studies Agenda |
| 9A - 10:30A |
| "Romancing the Pagan":
Folk Music, Politics, and Ideology in Pagan Intellectual History |
| Christopher W. Chase, Michigan State University |
| Religioning Reconstruction: Active Change in Reconstructionist Paganisms |
| Cat McEarchern, University of Stirling |
| 10:30A - 10:45A |
| Coffee Break |
10:45A - 12:30P
| Writing as an Academic vs. Writing as a Practitioner, |
| Douglas Cowan, University of Missouri-Kansas City |
| Nikki Bado-Fralick, Iowa State University |
| 12:30P - 2PM Lunch |
| 2P - 3:45P |
| I Still Worship Zeus
film showing |
| 3:45P - 4:00P |
| Coffee Break |
| 3:30P - 5:30P Book Session:
Researching Paganisms |
| Participants to be announced |
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