Neo-Paganism - Paganism as nature religion
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- Neo-Paganism: Is Dialogue Possible?
- Neo-Paganism Dialogue: What is Neo-Paganism?
- Neo-Paganism - The Pagan Deities
- Neo-Paganism - Neopaganism as nonauthoritarian, anarchic
- Neo-Paganism - Paganism as nature religion
- Neo-Paganism - The body, sexuality and nakedness
- Neo-Paganism - History of Neo-Paganism
- Neo-Paganism - Ritual in Neo-Paganism
- Neo-Paganism - The practice of magic
- Neo-Paganism - Sexuality in ritual
- Neo-Paganism - Holy days
- Neo-Paganism - Barriers and bridges to Christian faith
- Neo-Paganism: Barriers and bridges to dialogue
- Neo-Paganism - Barriers and bridges - theological
- Neo-Paganism - Barriers and bridges - historial
- Neo-Paganism - Conclusion
- Neo-Paganism - Endnotes
- Neo-Paganism - References
- Neo-Paganism - About this article
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Urban living has cut humans off from the cycles of nature: fertility, life and death. The genuine respect a neopagan holds for nature and its cycles is obvious. Earth is sacred because the deity is immanent.[12]
Pagans are opposed to the abuse of any individual and of nature, both animate and inanimate. For pagans, abuse of the land is abuse of their mother. Mother earth provides and cares for them; to harm her is to harm self, so pagans go to great lengths to protect their mother. Neopagans insist on the need `to acknowledge through symbol and action their connection to nature’ (St John: ch 7, 12).
Acute awareness of the earth and its adversaries causes many pagans to clash with the consumerist, materialistic world of the west.[13]
Neopagans strive for non-violence, nurture, social responsibility, global awareness, and responsible cooperative economics - all lacking in the capitalist west.
Many blame Christian culture that
seems to act as though the earth were merely raw material to be used up in getting somewhere else (either to heaven or to a golden future). Neopagans respond: We are at home here. Hence, the passionate protests to save forests or to celebrate rituals that attempt to connect participants with the cycles of nature [Paganism is] the spirituality of the ecological movement. (Kemp: 74)
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