“God Is My Quarantine Buddy”: Debates in Ritual Practice Among North American Pagans in 2020

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dc.contributor.advisorMcNeal, Keith
dc.contributor.committeeMemberRasmussen, Susan J.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberAllen, Paul J.
dc.creatorTeplin, Milo-Rhys Kaden
dc.creator.orcid0000-0002-7106-1930
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-16T20:14:53Z
dc.date.available2021-11-16T20:14:53Z
dc.date.createdAugust 2021
dc.date.issued2021-08
dc.date.submittedAugust 2021
dc.date.updated2021-11-16T20:14:59Z
dc.description.abstractThe past four decades of research in the contemporary paganism faith movement in the United States have focused on the creation of cosmologies based on scholarship, reclamations of heritage, counter-culturalism, and environmentalism. However, the dialogue has changed drastically in recent years due to the rapid and global communication between faith groups through the Internet. This became more apparent when so many had to digitize the entirety of their social lives during the pandemic of 2020. Contemporary paganism in the 21st century has become an amorphous mass of intersectional social issues and individual cosmologies because of the nature of human impact on the surrounding world. This is not just due to the intergenerational mixing of cultures brought on by globalism and a socially conscious attempt to avoid poaching someone else’s belief system while celebrating and discovering one’s own. Rather, this is a purposeful and ongoing dialogue that highlights how younger generations integrate their social and political values with their faith: personal cosmologies that function alongside a global political community are generally more important than a general cohesive doctrine that is shared by people of multiple disparate socio-political backgrounds.
dc.description.departmentComparative Cultural Studies, Department of
dc.format.digitalOriginborn digital
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10657/8339
dc.language.isoeng
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dc.subjectPagan
dc.subjectpaganism
dc.subjectinternet
dc.subjectisolation
dc.subjecttechnology
dc.subjectreligion
dc.subjecthuman behavior
dc.subjectsocial media
dc.subjectritual
dc.subjectneopagan
dc.subjectwicca
dc.subjectasatru
dc.subjectsca
dc.subjectsociety of creative anachronism
dc.subjectsociety for creative anachronism
dc.title“God Is My Quarantine Buddy”: Debates in Ritual Practice Among North American Pagans in 2020
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dc.type.genreThesis
thesis.degree.collegeCollege of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
thesis.degree.departmentComparative Cultural Studies, Department of
thesis.degree.disciplineAnthropology
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Houston
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts

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