Bounding Paganism

Bron Taylor
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Paganism is a construction that religionists and scholars alike define according to their understandings and purposes. Herein I seek to explode common understandings of Paganism, which assume it always involves beliefs and practices about putatively divine natural entities, beings, or forces, and to consider such phenomena more broadly, as a sensory and affective sensibility – and a perception that is often entirely naturalistic (e.g., scientific and agnostic if not avowedly atheistic) – about the proper place of humans in, and obligations to, nature. When understood in this way one can discern that a host of cultural creatives, including those orchestrating pageants and ritual-resembling ceremonies, artists of all sorts, curators of science museums, and even some developers of theme parks, have affinity with Pagan worldviews and values. By expanding the boundary of what many confine as Paganism it becomes possible to consider whether Paganism is more widespread, and growing more rapidly, than many perceive.
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边界异教
异教是宗教人士和学者根据他们的理解和目的来定义的一种结构。在这里,我试图打破人们对异教的普遍理解,这种理解认为异教总是涉及关于假定的神圣自然实体、存在或力量的信仰和实践,并更广泛地考虑这些现象,作为一种感官和情感敏感性,以及一种通常完全自然主义的感知(例如,如果不是公开无神论,则是科学的和不可知论的),关于人类在自然中的适当位置和对自然的义务。当以这种方式理解时,人们可以看出,许多文化创意,包括那些精心策划的盛会和类似仪式的仪式,各种各样的艺术家,科学博物馆的馆长,甚至一些主题公园的开发商,都与异教徒的世界观和价值观有密切的联系。通过扩大许多人所限定的异教的界限,可以考虑异教是否比许多人所认为的更广泛,更迅速地发展。
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