Who Is, and Who Is Not a Pagan? Struggles in Defining Contemporary Paganism: A Response to Ethan Doyle White
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.equinoxpub.com/POM/article/view/39673" target="_blank" >https://journals.equinoxpub.com/POM/article/view/39673</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/pome.39673" target="_blank" >10.1558/pome.39673</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Who Is, and Who Is Not a Pagan? Struggles in Defining Contemporary Paganism: A Response to Ethan Doyle White
Original language description
The article deals with Pagan studies’ attempts to define contemporary Paganism and claims that definition-building is not a fruitful way of getting to a better understanding of the phenomenon. The article (i) introduces the ways that Pagan studies have tacked the issue of defining contemporary Paganism, (ii) providing particular examples, and (iii) scrutinizing them with a help of classificatory and referential optics. Some scholars in the field have suggested employing family resemblance and polythetic definition for solving the definitional issues. The article (iv) analyzes these propositions and argues why these proposals are not feasible ways of conducting the inquiry. Instead, (v) it proposes a completely different research approach: to formulate a hypothesis, pick a point of reference of contemporary Paganism and test its self-representation against the hypothesis, together with scrutinizing the history of Paganism conceptualizations during the centuries to find out how much these conceptualizations influence our present inquiries and insider self-representations.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - 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
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Pomegranate
ISSN
1528-0268
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
22
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
20
Pages from-to
125-145
UT code for WoS article
000696310800001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85115653420