The Image of Paganism in the British Romanticism

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1558/pome.34524" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1558/pome.34524</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/pome.34524" target="_blank" >10.1558/pome.34524</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Image of Paganism in the British Romanticism

Original language description

This article tries to answer the question of how the concept of paganism was conceived and shaped by the Romantic thinkers, and whether it has in uenced our current understanding of both antiquity paganism and contemporary Paganism; if yes, how? My aim is to show this with the example of the Romantic period in the Great Britain especially between 1750–1850. I omit the commonplace account on the poets and other artists and their works in this paper, instead of that, I focus mainly on the works of antiquarians, historians, and philosophers, and want to show a different image of the Romantic period than it is often perceived. I start with the work of pre-Romantic antiquarian William Stukeley, and end with the work of Iolo Morganwg. The article argues that the very image of the ancient past was shaped by Christian theological concerns and questions, and the political situation and artistic romantic sentiment of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Thus, the image of paganism as it exists today re ects religious and political disputes of those centuries. The article also argues that not only has this image of paganism has been retained till today, but that it has also in uenced some notions of contemporary Pagan thought. This notwithstanding, the image of paganism is no longer considered in its full scope, since the concerns and questions which guided its construction sank into oblivion, while their “product” – the romantic image of the Celts and Druids remained.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60304 - Religious studies

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies

ISSN

1528-0268

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

19

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

25

Pages from-to

141-165

UT code for WoS article

000426997600001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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