Regrettably I’ve never made it to the Burning Man festival, but I’ve been fascinated by the reports I’ve read. The Huffington Post carries a report that shows the spiritual side of the event, and the pagan commonalities with Shinto are … Read the rest
Category: Paganism (Page 4 of 9)
This is the final part of a series comparing the Pagan traditions in Japan and Britain. The previous post looked at the invention of Wicca and the growth of Neo-paganism in Britain in modern times. Now we turn to the … Read the rest
This is the penultimate in a series comparing Shinto in Japan and Paganism in Britain. The previous postings considered Shinto of the Edo era (1600-1867), including syncretism and Nativism. Now the focus shifts to the nineteenth-century pagan revival in Britain … Read the rest
This is part of an ongoing series comparing the Pagan religions of Britain and Japan. The previous post, Part 5, focussed on the fusion of Buddhism and kami worship that for more than 1000 years was the mainstream of Japanese … Read the rest
This post is part of a series exploring the pagan pasts of Britain and Japan. One of the salient differences was the attitude of the continental axial religions (Buddhism and Christianity) to the earlier religious practice. In Japan the … Read the rest
This is part 4 in a series comparing the pagan pasts of Britain and Japan…
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Britain’s path from paganism to Christianity
In the fifth century when Angles, Saxons and Jutes invaded England following the withdrawal of the Romans, Celtic … Read the rest
This is the third in an ongoing series comparing the pagan pasts and present of Britain and Japan…. For the previous two episodes please click here for Part 1 and here for Part 2. Part 1 compared the two … Read the rest