Despite their seemingly secular location within numerous museums across the globe, ancient statues of the Egyptian goddess Sekhmet have become focal points of contemporary spiritual pilgrimages for those seeking knowledge of “Herstory” and the numinous. The purported experiences of Goddess devotees indicate the development of a canon of reception which regards museums as both educational resources and houses of the sacred. This article examines the intersection of contemporary Goddess Spirituality with museum exhibits featuring statues of Sekhmet, considering the implications of secular institutions housing artifacts deemed of sacred significance. It will conclude by outlining how the engagement of special interest groups, such as Goddess devotees, present specific concerns, as well as potential benefits to the heritage industry.
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This paper is an examination of the information behaviors and habits of practising Pagans and ritual magicians. Aspects of information behavior relevant to contemporary Paganism are discussed, before features of Paganism that may affect information needs and use are presented. An online questionnaire covering the six areas of information needs, access, retrieval, quality, use and literacy was administered with 142 respondents, and five of those were subsequently interviewed at length, before the results were analyzed using an interpretivist methodology, with reference to existing information behavior models deemed relevant. The results present the beginning stages of a model of Pagan and Occult information behavior, showing seven sliding scales concerning issues practicing Pagans and ritual magicians face when engaging with information, on which each individual may have very different positions.
{"title":"If That Which Thou Seekest Thou Findest Not Within Thee, Thou Wilt Never Find It On The Internet","authors":"Joanne Fitzpatrick","doi":"10.1558/pome.22512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/pome.22512","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is an examination of the information behaviors and habits of practising Pagans and ritual magicians. Aspects of information behavior relevant to contemporary Paganism are discussed, before features of Paganism that may affect information needs and use are presented. An online questionnaire covering the six areas of information needs, access, retrieval, quality, use and literacy was administered with 142 respondents, and five of those were subsequently interviewed at length, before the results were analyzed using an interpretivist methodology, with reference to existing information behavior models deemed relevant. The results present the beginning stages of a model of Pagan and Occult information behavior, showing seven sliding scales concerning issues practicing Pagans and ritual magicians face when engaging with information, on which each individual may have very different positions.","PeriodicalId":41407,"journal":{"name":"Pomegranate","volume":"4 s7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72390138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article focuses on the activities of one of the Native Faith organizations of Ukraine, the Rus’ke Pravoslavne Kolo (Community of Rus’ people who praise gods, hereafter CRLG). This organization was founded in October 2007. The center of the community’s activities is located in the city of Zaporizhzhia, located on the banks of the Dnipro River. The riverbed is divided by the island of Khortytsia, the largest island on the Dnipro, the pride of Ukraine and a national reserve. The island also contains important historical and archaeological sites. They are part of the CRLG’s religious and ritual activities. It should be noted that the island of Khortytsia and its objects (the complex of cromlechs of the Eneolithic period, the sanctuary of the Bronze Age, and the “Scythian Camp” tourist-memorial complex are important components of the religious self-identification of many contemporary Ukrainian Pagans. They give a feeling of belonging to antiquity, to spiritual sources. But it is the representatives of the CRLG, due to the geographical proximity to the museum space of the island of Khortytsia, who most actively use it in their religious and spiritual practices. Contemporary Pagans themselves also create museum spaces that have become part of the culture, such as the Rodovid wandering museum. In 2014, Bereginya Yana (Yasna) Yakovenko became its ideological inspirer and organizer. The museum exhibits are based on Yana Yakovenko’s collection of embroidered shirts (vyshyvankas). The Rodovid Museum began its active work precisely due to people’s interest inthe traditions of embroidery. Yana Yakovenko lectures at schools in Zaporizhzhia and conducts appropriate master classes. Today, the exhibits of this museum are in her home. The museum is “wandering” because it does not have a special room for its exhibits, but in 2020 Yana Yakovenko has officially issued documents for museum activities.
本文重点介绍了乌克兰本土信仰组织之一Rus ' ke Pravoslavne Kolo(罗斯人赞美神的社区，以下简称CRLG)的活动。本组织成立于2007年10月。社区活动的中心位于第聂伯罗河畔的城市。河床被第聂伯罗河上最大的岛屿霍尔蒂察岛所分割，该岛是乌克兰的骄傲，也是国家保护区。该岛还包含重要的历史和考古遗址。这是中华人民共和国宗教仪式活动的一部分。应该指出的是，hortytsia岛及其物品(新石器时代的克伦勒奇建筑群，青铜时代的圣所，以及“斯基泰营地”旅游纪念建筑群)是许多当代乌克兰异教徒宗教自我认同的重要组成部分。它们给人一种属于古代，属于精神源泉的感觉。但它是CRLG的代表，由于地理上靠近hortytsia岛的博物馆空间，他们最积极地在宗教和精神实践中使用它。当代异教徒自己也创造了博物馆空间，这些空间已经成为文化的一部分，比如罗多维流浪博物馆。2014年，Bereginya Yana (Yasna) Yakovenko成为其思想的启发者和组织者。博物馆的展品以Yana Yakovenko的刺绣衬衫(vyshyvankas)为基础。罗多维德博物馆正是由于人们对刺绣传统的兴趣而开始活跃起来的。Yana Yakovenko在学校讲课，并举办适当的大师班。今天，这个博物馆的展品都在她家里。博物馆正在“徘徊”，因为它没有一个专门的房间来放置展品，但在2020年，雅科文科已经正式发布了博物馆活动的文件。
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The article presents the cultural reception of Old Uppsala with a focus in how it is used by contemporary Heathens. Modern Swedish Heathens see the place as spiritually significant, and there have been public blots at the site yearly since 2000. Such rituals are only ambivalently tolerated by the museum and Swedish National Heritage Board. In recent years other groups have started to use the site as well and it has also been used by a variety of smaller shamanistic groups. For Heathens, the place a sacred area, representing the last significant religious site for pre-Christian Norse religion and resistance to Christianization. I argue that Old Uppsala lies at the center of Sweden’s often complicated relationship with its own history. Its story follows broader cultural trends connected to national identity and when modern Heathens enter the scene, they become a part of this larger debate. The article will look at how the museum presents the Viking age and how their presentations both work with and in opposition to Heathen constructions about Viking age religion.
本文介绍了旧乌普萨拉的文化接收，重点是当代异教徒如何使用它。现代瑞典异教徒将这里视为具有精神意义的地方，自2000年以来，这里每年都会出现公共污点。博物馆和瑞典国家文物局(Swedish National Heritage Board)只能矛盾地容忍这种仪式。近年来，其他团体也开始使用这个网站，它也被各种较小的萨满教团体使用。对于异教徒来说，这个地方是一个神圣的地方，代表了前基督教挪威宗教和抵抗基督教化的最后一个重要的宗教场所。我认为，老乌普萨拉位于瑞典与其自身历史复杂关系的中心。它的故事遵循了与民族认同有关的更广泛的文化趋势，当现代异教徒进入这个场景时，他们成为了这个更大辩论的一部分。这篇文章将看看博物馆是如何呈现维京时代的，以及他们的展示是如何与异教徒关于维京时代宗教的建构相互作用的。
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“Reckoning and Reclaiming,” an exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum, located in the center of Salem, Massachusetts, ran from September 2021 through March 2022, bringing together materials from the Salem witch trials of 1692 with Frances F. Denny’s photographs of contemporary Witches and a video of Alexander McQueen’s’ haute couture fashion show that he claimed was inspired by the trials. The mix of old and new witchcraft was visually jolting. Although the new materials provided some relief from the main part of the show that documents the horror of the state supported terror that was the trials, the mixing and matching of the two did neither full service. It further-more served as its own form of commercialization of witchcraft; something that in the past that the museum has avoided.
位于马萨诸塞州塞勒姆市中心的皮博迪埃塞克斯博物馆(Peabody Essex Museum)将于2021年9月至2022年3月举办“审判与回收”(Reckoning and Reclaiming)展览，展览汇集了1692年塞勒姆女巫审判的材料、弗朗西斯·f·丹尼(Frances F. Denny)拍摄的当代女巫照片，以及亚历山大·麦昆(Alexander McQueen)的高级定制时装秀视频，他声称自己的灵感来自审判。新旧巫术的混合在视觉上令人震撼。虽然新材料提供了一些救济的主要部分，记录了恐怖的国家支持的恐怖审判，两者的混合和匹配都没有充分发挥作用。它更是巫术商业化的一种形式;这是博物馆过去一直避免的事情。
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The history and fascination of the Salem Witch Trials continues to attract visitors to the American coastal city in Massachusetts. This paper will investigate what has been instigated in the form of memorialization to those that were accused and subsequently executed; nineteen were hanged and one was pressed to death, how has Salem confronted this part of their history?
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Inspired by post-colonial restitution campaigns for return of Ancestral bones, British Druids campaigned for the reburial of skeletons and other corporeal relics in museums and at heritage sites. This article briefly analyses the ideas behind and the conduct of these campaigns situating them within the traditions of contemporary British Druidry.
{"title":"Pagans and Museums","authors":"Will Rathouse","doi":"10.1558/pome.21357","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/pome.21357","url":null,"abstract":"Inspired by post-colonial restitution campaigns for return of Ancestral bones, British Druids campaigned for the reburial of skeletons and other corporeal relics in museums and at heritage sites. This article briefly analyses the ideas behind and the conduct of these campaigns situating them within the traditions of contemporary British Druidry.","PeriodicalId":41407,"journal":{"name":"Pomegranate","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84556541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Barbara Alice Mann, Spirits of Blood, Spirits of Breath: The Twinned Cosmos of Indigenous America (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), xi + 364 pp. $135 (cloth), $38.95 (paper), $37.99 (ebook).
{"title":"Barbara Alice Mann, Spirits of Blood, Spirits of Breath: The Twinned Cosmos of Indigenous America","authors":"S. Dees","doi":"10.1558/pome.21975","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/pome.21975","url":null,"abstract":"Barbara Alice Mann, Spirits of Blood, Spirits of Breath: The Twinned Cosmos of Indigenous America (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), xi + 364 pp. $135 (cloth), $38.95 (paper), $37.99 (ebook).","PeriodicalId":41407,"journal":{"name":"Pomegranate","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76591403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Matthew Hall, The Imagination of Plants: A Book of Botanical Mythology","authors":"M. Bintley","doi":"10.1558/pome.20862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/pome.20862","url":null,"abstract":"Matthew Hall, The Imagination of Plants: A Book of Botanical Mythology (Albany: SUNY Press, 2019), 330 pp., $95 (cloth), $33.95 (paper).","PeriodicalId":41407,"journal":{"name":"Pomegranate","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85858336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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