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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

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68378076%3A_____%2F20%3A00545474" target="_blank" >RIV/68378076:_____/20:00545474 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • 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

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    60304 - Religious studies

Result continuities

  • Project

  • 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

  • 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