Pagan Religions in Five Minutes - Suzanne Owen
33. Are Some Pagans Atheist?
Pagan Religions in Five Minutes - Suzanne Owen
Sarah Best [+]
Wilfrid Laurier University
Sarah Best is a doctoral candidate in religious studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada. She has an MRes in social anthropology from the University of St. Andrews and an MA in English and Digital Humanities. Her research focuses on the various intersections between religion, environmentalism, and science and technology in contemporary society.
Description
Pagans ascribe to a wide variety of cosmologies and worldviews, some of whom may be atheists. Although some Pagans are hard polytheists, deities as gods, others are soft polytheists, viewing them as metaphors or archetypes. There are also humanist, animist, pantheist and other Pagan worldviews with different conceptions of divinity. “Religion” need not follow a Protestant Christian concern with a belief in a god but rather on a set of practices.