Tradition · 19th–21st century Euro-American and global micro-traditions: romantic recovery, ceremonial magic cross-pollination, internet-liturgies; fiercely local yet networked. 11 essays
Modern paganism
reconstructed and inherited—Wicca's covens, Heathen kindreds, druidries arguing with archaeology
Modern paganisms refuse single blueprint: initiatory Wicca, eclectic solitary practice, reconstructionists measuring claims against sources, diasporic traditions borrowing with uneasy care. Concepts of myth-as-truth return—sometimes as history denied, sometimes as honest metaphor with teeth.
Scholarship tracks authenticity debates, nationalism hazards, and feminism’s impact on witchcraft revival.
Outdeus treats modern paganism as scaffolding for how new religious movements remix sacred space, pluralize authority, and demand that ancient figures speak in modern moral air.
- Concepts
- Ritual ·Sacred space ·Myth as truth ·Polytheism ·New religious movements
- Figures
- Odin ·Zeus ·Karen Armstrong ·William James ·Friedrich Nietzsche
Essays · 11 in total
- Druidry: Ancient Names, Modern Orders, and Living Groves
- Fae and the Fair Folk: The Dangerous Otherworld at the Field’s Edge
- Feminist Spirituality: Goddess Movements and the Divine Feminine
- Loki: Trickster or Destroyer? Chaos in Norse Cosmology
- Odin’s Sacrifice: Wisdom at a Cost
- Pagan Ethics: The Wiccan Rede and Moral Life Beyond a Single Law
- Pagan Festivals and the Wheel of the Year: Sabbats, Seasons, and Sacred Time
- Paganism, Environmentalism, and Sacred Nature
- Persephone's Dual Reign: Why the Queen of Death Brings Spring
- Syncretism: When Traditions Mix and Refuse the Label
- Wicca: Gardner, Bricket Wood, and the Invention of Modern Witchcraft