DENVER — Give them that old-time religion — ancient religion — and then watch an exploding population of modern pagans give it a new twist. Neo-paganism, whether a reconstruction of ancient practice ...

Pagans have long had a bad rap. Ethan Doyle White’s “Pagans: The Visual Culture of Pagan Myths, Legends + Rituals” corrects misconceptions and explains their intricate belief systems and rich ...

IF it be true that ‘man is a religious animal,’ it is more comprehensively true in the sense that he is a worshiping animal; and the instinctive god of his idolatry is Self. Man is a natural ...

(RNS) — This time of year, a bruja, or witch, practices central Mexican Indigenous rituals and modern pagan ones, both honoring the Earth and “us as individuals as part of nature.” But the holidays of ...

OK, fine, Beltane — an ancient Celtic holiday celebrated by some modern pagans — won’t roll around until May. But we’re just trying to get into the spirit, so to speak, after learning that Marshall ...

(RNS) — While the Mabon, like the other seven sabbats on the Wheel, is informed by older agricultural practices, its name is not so old. (RNS) — As weather cools and the leaves change color, pagans ...

More Poles are consciously choosing pagan paths, driven in part by a desire to reconnect with pre-Christian traditions and what they see as an ancestral Slavic cultural legacy, according to ...

A surprising genealogy of neopaganism. Type “burning times” into any major Internet search engine and you will be engulfed by a host of websites all telling essentially the same tale about the ...

Yule has become synonymous with the Christmas season, but its origins predate the Christian holiday by centuries. By many accounts, the term comes from the Old Norse word jól, which was a three-night ...