Old stones, new rites: contemporary pagan interactions with the medway megaliths

White, Ethan Doyle

doi:10.1080/17432200.2016.1192152

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“…For example, Neo-Pagans often worship at places that have for them a historical meaning and a religious value. This is the case with Stonehenge and Medway Megalithis, heritage sites in England whose stones are attributed religious agency and sacred narratives by many Neo-Pagans (Blain and Wallis 2004;White 2016). Some Neo-Pagan practitioners organize travel to what they consider as religiously charged places, such as temples in Greece, to celebrate ancient myths (Bittarello 2006).…”

Section: Neo-pagan Authority and Online Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Materiality, Authority, and Digital Religion: The Case of a Neo-Pagan Forum

Evolvi

2020

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The study of material culture increasingly pays attention to digital religion, but there are certain aspects, such as religious authority, that remain under-researched. Some questions are still open for inquiry: What can a material approach contribute to the understanding of religious authority in digital venues? How can authority be materially displayed on the Internet? This article shows how religious authority is affected by material practices connected with digital media use through the qualitative analysis of a Neo-Pagan forum, The Celtic Connection. Neo-Pagans tend to hold a non-traditional notion of authority, accord great importance to material practices, and extensively use the Internet. The analysis of the forum suggests that Neo-Pagans use digital venues to look for informal sources of authority and strategies to embed materiality in online narratives. The article claims that it is important to develop new frameworks to analyze non-traditional authority figures and new definitions of media that include both physical objects and communication technologies.

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Section: Neo-pagan Authority and Online Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%