O Paganismo

What Do We Believe?

by Graham Harvey

O paganismo é uma das religiões em mais célere crescimento em todo o mundo. É habitualmente expresso através da celebração de festividades sazonais, como os solstícios, e pelo uso da magia.
Inspirando-se em fontes ancestrais, o paganismo está relacionado com algumas das principais preocupações da nossa época, incluindo a ecologia e o feminismo. Embora a celebração da natureza possa ser romântica , esta levou também muitos pagãos a envolverem-se em actos radicais.
O paganismo enfatiza a escolha pessoal ao mesmo tempo que age em harmonia com a mais vasta comunidade da vida.

Genres: Paganism, Nonfiction

96 pages, Paperback

First published February 8, 2013

About the author

Graham Harvey, Ph.D. (University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1991), is a religious studies scholar specializing in modern Paganism, indigenous religions and animism. He was was head of the religious studies department at the Open University (2013–17), reader and principal lecturer in religious studies at the King Alfred's College, Winchester (1996–2003), and taught religious studies at his alma mater (1991–95).

Reviews

[Alexia ✨ · Rating 3 out of 5]

First and foremost I want to leave a note regarding the edition I read: The translation is Awful. I am not kidding, it is AWFUL. Please Portuguese Publishers, if you don't have translators that can translate pagan subjects, I volunteer and I'm sure more of my pagan friends also do. I hope, in the future, I can read this book again in English because I can confirm it will go up one star just for it, I'm sure.

Onto the book's content: This book is pretty interesting. I like how the author tries to explain what Paganism is (a huge task, I might add) and gives lots of examples and talks of several paths. I do feel it talks a bit more about Wicca and might leave the reader to understand that most of Paganism are Wiccan-based, which is wrong. I wish there were a more clear line between what is Wicca and what is Paganism because they are NOT the same.

Overall it's not a bad book. I still prefer John Beckett's view of Paganism as a Big Tent and would prefer to recommend other books such as The Path of Paganism: An Experience-Based Guide to Modern Pagan Practice for 101 on Paganism. Overall, it's a decent book and I hope I can up a star once I get to read it in English.

[Tim Pendry · Rating 1 out of 5]

I have to say that this little book in the Granta series irritated me. Possibly because of limitations of space, it presented an overly ideologically-correct 'green' interpretation of neo-paganism, part of a current attempt to shoe-horn it into the current cultural mania for environmentalism. There is no reason to suppose the two -isms are identical and there are better guides.

[Tülin · Rating 2 out of 5]

There were limited sections of the book that were interesting - the descriptions of actual practices, the folk stories. However, this book repeated a lot of information over and over, chapter to chapter. I couldn't help but skim read now and then to finish it quickly. I would not recommend this for anyone but those who want a very brief and very vague description on what a Pagan actually is.

[Trish · Rating 3 out of 5]

Because I was curious.

[Corwen Broch · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent, simply written and entertaining introduction to Paganism for the curious. Graham is one of the foremost academics studying Paganism today and also a long time practitioner. An especially useful book for those who are not sure which of the Pagan paths to go more deeply into.