Pagan Religions in Five Minutes - Suzanne Owen
56. How Much of Paganism is Based on Cultural Appropriation?
Pagan Religions in Five Minutes - Suzanne Owen
Sabina Magliocco [+]
The University of British Columbia
Sabina Magliocco is professor of anthropology and chair of the Program in Religion at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
Description
Like other religions, Paganism has adapted existing traditions into new forms. It emerged from 19th century Romanticism bringing together different philosophies and mythologies. Cultural appropriation as a concept was part of the critique of colonialism in the 1970s. Often with little material to work with from their own pre-Christian traditions, many Pagans do appropriate from colonised cultures, decontextualising them in the process.