Word: paganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...atmosphere, then, is properly ominous at Camp Shelter, where Delia, Catherine and sisters Lenny and Alma explore a wilderness that mirrors their own sexual stirrings and confusion. The woods are dark, deep and haunted by both Christian and pagan spirits. A character named Parson flits in and out of Phillips' story as a sort of Fundamentalist avenger. Nature comes guileless in the person of Buddy, a knowing child of the forest, and Nature comes sinister in the form of Buddy's father Carmody, a backwoods pervert who would not have been out of place in James Dickey's Deliverance...
Finally, this modern pagan vehemently objects to the use of the word 'bastard' to describe anyone's children. I believe in family planning, but after children are born they should be loved and supported unconditionally, not gratuitously stigmatized on the basis of obsolete concepts such as 'legitimacy'. Carsey Yee GSAS
...depicts the Sanhedrin as a political body that collaborated with the Roman occupation forces and lacked any religious legitimacy. "Neither ((Jesus')) religious teachings nor his beliefs could have been on trial -- only their political consequences," says Rivkin. In his book, though, Brown sifts the ancient documents, Jewish and pagan as well as Christian, to argue that the Sanhedrin was the single recognized Jewish panel that treated both religious and political matters, albeit under the Roman thumb and therefore seen as corrupt by Jews in later years...
Iran has attempted to prohibit the ritual because of its pre-Islamic, "pagan" origins, Chehabi said...
...sample project would have a student work with a neo-pagan group and explore their sense of reli- giosity," Mitchell said...