A History of Pagan Europe - Hardcover

Jones, Prudence; Pennick, Nigel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415091365 ISBN 13: 9780415091367

Verlag: Routledge, 1995

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Book by Jones Prudence Pennick Nigel

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"A general reader coming to the field for the first time could not hope for a better primer. It is a work at once objective and personal, scholarly and accessible, and broad in its focus, well capturing the intensity of individual places and moments." -Ronald Hutton, University of Bristol "Written with an insider's sensibility and an outsider's scholarly eye, this book is bound to appeal to a wide audience, from those who are fascinated by the early religious history of Europe and its fate, to those who describe their own spirituality as pagan. It is a rich, substantive book, full of interesting detail, and written in a clear, engaging and accessible style." -Tanya Luhrmann, University of California, San Diego "The authors set for themselves a formidable task: to 'describe the hidden history of Europe, the persistence of its native religion in various forms from ancient times right up to present day.' Arguing that the European native religious tradition 'has continued to exist and even to flourish more or less openly in the present day, when it is undergoing an new restoration, ' they propose to survey a multitude of European cultures and rather dissimilar 'pagan' religions." -"Choice "This ambitious work endeavors to demonstrate how the indigenous spiritual traditions of Europe were not wiped out by various invaders but in fact constitute a kind of hidden history of Europe. . . . this work will satisfy those interested in a background for New Age spirituality." -"Library Journal "It gives the general reader a...reliable picture of the history of the pagan cults and the complex development of the Christianization process. It offers an interesting synthesis ofthe vicissitudes of the uprooting of heathen thought and its success or failure; it is therefore a volume anyone probing into Europe's religious past will enjoy reading." -"History of Religions

Reseña del editor:

The first comprehensive study of its kind, this fully illustrated book establishes Paganism as a persistent force in European history with a profound influence on modern thinking.

From the serpent goddesses of ancient Crete to modern nature-worship and the restoration of the indigenous religions of eastern Europe, this wide-ranging book offers a rewarding new perspective of European history.

In this definitive study, Prudence Jones and Nigel Pennick draw together the fragmented sources of Europe's native religions and establish the coherence and continuity of the Pagan world vision. Exploring Paganism as it developed from the ancient world through the Celtic and Germanic periods, the authors finally appraise modern Paganism and its apparent causes as well as addressing feminist spirituality, the heritage movement, nature-worship and `deep' ecology

This innovative and comprehensive history of European Paganism will provide a stimulating, reliable guide to this popular dimension of religious culture for the academic and the general reader alike.

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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0415091365
• ISBN 13: 9780415091367
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288