“If the Base Fundamentals Are Too Much for You...”: Reconsidering the Existence of Doctrines in Modern Paganism
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Result on the web
<a href="https://online.ucpress.edu/nr/article-abstract/26/2/30/194290/If-the-Base-Fundamentals-Are-Too-Much-for-You" target="_blank" >https://online.ucpress.edu/nr/article-abstract/26/2/30/194290/If-the-Base-Fundamentals-Are-Too-Much-for-You</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/nr.2022.26.2.30" target="_blank" >10.1525/nr.2022.26.2.30</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
“If the Base Fundamentals Are Too Much for You...”: Reconsidering the Existence of Doctrines in Modern Paganism
Original language description
This article deals with the possible existence of doctrines in modern Paganism. Generally, Pagan studies scholars widely consider modern Paganism a religion without doctrines. Furthermore, Margot Adler, one of the early researchers of modern Paganism, established a narrative that practice is more important than beliefs in modern Paganism. However, based on ethnographic research conducted among modern European Pagans between 2014 and 2017, along with additional secondary data, this article argues that doctrines may emerge in situations of pressure or conflict, or while delineating boundaries and gate-keeping Paganism against other religions. In such situations, beliefs become enforced and turn into the basis of potential doctrines. Doctrines are authoritatively defined theoretical components of religion, comprising teaching, beliefs, and confessions. Their authoritative character has its historical roots in Christianity and tries to keep the doctrinal contents fixed using a dynamic of truth and falsity, which determines orthodoxy—distinguishing right faith from error.
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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
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Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions
ISSN
1092-6690
e-ISSN
1541-8480
Volume of the periodical
26
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
19
Pages from-to
30-48
UT code for WoS article
000885878900002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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