Transforming Deities
Modern Pagan Projects of Revival and Reinvention
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/ijsnr.37404Keywords:
Modern Paganism, Hellenic Paganism, Goddess spirituality, Italian Pagans, Maltese Pagans, Iberian Pagans, Çatalhöyük, goddesses, deitiesAbstract
This article examines a variety of ways in which deities from the ancient Mediterranean have been re-appropriated, re-interpreted, transformed, and invented for contemporary religious and socio-political purposes by local Pagan communities—especially in Greece, Italy, Iberia, and Malta—and by followers of the global Goddess spirituality movement.
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