There is a divine pronouncement among the Akan that all human beings are children of God (Nana Nyame), none a child of the earth (mother); meaning that human beings are spiritual in origin, descending directly from God via the Abosom (gods and goddesses). Every person then has a deity as father (?gyabosom), recognition of which existentially enables a person to fulfil one’s career or professional blueprint (Nkrabea). Intrinsically, therefore, human beings embody the very essence of the Abosom, which manifests itself behaviorally and psychologically in a manner identical to those of the gods and goddesses.
{"title":"Anthony Ephirim-Donkor, African Personality and Spirituality: The Role of Abosom and Human Essence","authors":"D. Ficek","doi":"10.1558/POM.38077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/POM.38077","url":null,"abstract":"There is a divine pronouncement among the Akan that all human beings are children of God (Nana Nyame), none a child of the earth (mother); meaning that human beings are spiritual in origin, descending directly from God via the Abosom (gods and goddesses). Every person then has a deity as father (?gyabosom), recognition of which existentially enables a person to fulfil one’s career or professional blueprint (Nkrabea). Intrinsically, therefore, human beings embody the very essence of the Abosom, which manifests itself behaviorally and psychologically in a manner identical to those of the gods and goddesses.","PeriodicalId":399111,"journal":{"name":"Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116862247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"W. Michael Ashcraft, A Historical Introduction to the Study of New Religious Movements","authors":"C. Cusack","doi":"10.1558/POM.37569","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/POM.37569","url":null,"abstract":"W. Michael Ashcraft, A Historical Introduction to the Study of New Religious Movements (London: Routledge, 2018); vii, 251 pp.; $79.95 (hardback).","PeriodicalId":399111,"journal":{"name":"Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133552049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Edward J. Watts, The Final Pagan Generation","authors":"Chas S. Clifton","doi":"10.1558/POM.36732","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/POM.36732","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":399111,"journal":{"name":"Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128440605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trude Fonneland, Contemporary Shamanisms in Norway: Religion, Entrepreneurship, and Politics","authors":"R. Wallis","doi":"10.1558/POM.36738","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/POM.36738","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":399111,"journal":{"name":"Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132013567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Karen Fjelstad and Nguyễn Thị Hiền, Spirits Without Borders: Vietnamese Spirit Mediums in a Transnational Age","authors":"M. Coward","doi":"10.1558/POM.36771","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/POM.36771","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":399111,"journal":{"name":"Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129856391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I focus on "Celticity" as an area of cultural material emically marked as "Celtic," whether containing real borrowings from Celtic cultures or pre-Christian religions, or not. In Russian post-Soviet milieus of Pagan, Nativist and esoteric movements, as well as in mass culture, "Celtic" may vary from a dim referential corpus serving as a backdrop for different cultural agendas to ethnic and folkloristic reconstructions in religious or secular context. The present paper looks at two contexts in which Celticity was and is articulated in modern Russia. The first was as a topic in the Slavic Paganism and Nativism between 1990 and the 2010s. Claiming an "Indo-European" identity, many Russian Pagan Nativist authors mention Celts in the context of a "big" Indo-European history of Slavs/Russians. The role of these "Celts" may vary-from close allies or kin peoples to foes and spiritual opponents. Second, Celticity plays a role in Russian non-Slavic Paganism. While Wicca in the1990s and subsequently was widely perceived in Russia as a "Celtic" religion, a Druidic movement also emerged in the twenty-first century.
{"title":"Claiming Europe: Celticity in Russian Pagan and Nativist Movement (1990s–2010s)","authors":"Dmitry Galtsin","doi":"10.1558/POM.34872","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/POM.34872","url":null,"abstract":"I focus on \"Celticity\" as an area of cultural material emically marked as \"Celtic,\" whether containing real borrowings from Celtic cultures or pre-Christian religions, or not. In Russian post-Soviet milieus of Pagan, Nativist and esoteric movements, as well as in mass culture, \"Celtic\" may vary from a dim referential corpus serving as a backdrop for different cultural agendas to ethnic and folkloristic reconstructions in religious or secular context. The present paper looks at two contexts in which Celticity was and is articulated in modern Russia. The first was as a topic in the Slavic Paganism and Nativism between 1990 and the 2010s. Claiming an \"Indo-European\" identity, many Russian Pagan Nativist authors mention Celts in the context of a \"big\" Indo-European history of Slavs/Russians. The role of these \"Celts\" may vary-from close allies or kin peoples to foes and spiritual opponents. Second, Celticity plays a role in Russian non-Slavic Paganism. While Wicca in the1990s and subsequently was widely perceived in Russia as a \"Celtic\" religion, a Druidic movement also emerged in the twenty-first century.","PeriodicalId":399111,"journal":{"name":"Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127635467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article presents evidence of an attempt to undertake a revival of witchcraft at Oxford University in the 1920s. The students involved in the attempt appear to have been influenced by ideas about witchcraft that were circulating in contemporary British society, including (but not limited to) the theories of Margaret Murray. The episode constitutes an interesting early step in the progress of the modern witchcraft revival. The surviving evidence also highlights how one of the most prestigious of British institutions could play host to overlapping networks of individuals whose occult interests challenged the norms of both traditional Christianity and secular rationalism.
{"title":"An Esbat among the Quads: An Episode of Witchcraft at Oxford University in the 1920s","authors":"G. Wheeler","doi":"10.1558/pom.34209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/pom.34209","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents evidence of an attempt to undertake a revival of witchcraft at Oxford University in the 1920s. The students involved in the attempt appear to have been influenced by ideas about witchcraft that were circulating in contemporary British society, including (but not limited to) the theories of Margaret Murray. The episode constitutes an interesting early step in the progress of the modern witchcraft revival. The surviving evidence also highlights how one of the most prestigious of British institutions could play host to overlapping networks of individuals whose occult interests challenged the norms of both traditional Christianity and secular rationalism.","PeriodicalId":399111,"journal":{"name":"Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121762892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bernd-Christian Otto and Michael Stausberg (eds), Defining Magic: A Reader","authors":"C. Cusack","doi":"10.1558/POM.36654","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/POM.36654","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":399111,"journal":{"name":"Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117061863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mark Williams, Ireland’s Immortals: A History the Gods of Irish Myth","authors":"C. Cusack","doi":"10.1558/POM.36649","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/POM.36649","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":399111,"journal":{"name":"Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116959553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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