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...These two currents interact with each other, conflict and intermingle with each other," she said. But Judeo-Christianity "never did defeat paganism," Paglia said...
...Paglia, who received a Ph.D. in literature from Yale in 1972, said the dormant influence of paganism has been most acutely felt in the Renaissance, in Romanticism and in 20th century popular culture...
...Paglia places herself in the pagan tradition...
Born to what she called a poor but loving family of Italian immigrants in upstate New York, Paglia, 51, said she first became aware of paganism's war with organized religion while staring at the erotic pose of a Renaissance-era St. Sebastian in church as a young girl...
Thus began the first of the many paradoxes that are Camille Paglia...