Cherry Hill Seminary has announced the fall course schedule. I’ll be teaching Contemporary Global Paganisms. Will you join us?
| Contemporary Global Paganisms C5121Taught by: Sarah Whedon, Ph.D. Mondays 8:00 PM ETOpen to master’s and certificate students; others may audit with permission of instructorEarns 3 unit hours for certificates Earns 3 credit hours for degrees Non-matriculated students earn no units/credits |
This survey course will introduce students to the wide variety of Paganisms being practiced around the world. We will challenge scholarly definitions of Paganism and our own personal ones by attempting to trace common threads between many disparate traditions. Students will familiarize themselves with both popular and scholarly descriptions of contemporary Paganisms, then explore the Internet and their local communities to gain first-hand experience with traditions not their own. In these encounters, we will deal with issues of cultural appropriation versus appropriate cultural borrowing and consider Paganism’s position as a consciously (re)constructed, combinative religious path. A final project will allow students to synthesize their knowledge in a comparison of Paganisms that supports the unique thrust of their ministerial paths.Required for all Master’s degree programs.Please note that the required Modern Paganism book can take several weeks to arrive! If unavailable from Fields Books or Amazon, it can be ordered from the publisher at http://www.abc-clio.com/ in print or in an e-book edition. Non-US students, contact the instructor if you have difficulty ordering this book.Required TextsAdler, Margot. Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America Today. Penguin, 2006 revised & updated edition. ISBN 143038192.
Strmiska, Michael, ed. Modern Paganism in World Cultures: Comparative Perspectives (Religion in Contemporary Cultures). ABC-CLIO, 2005. ISBN 1851096086 An academic Pagan Studies book of the student’s choice, to be chosen after the semester begins. |
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