Making the Strange Familiar

From studying Pagan festivals as a graduate student to writing about Burning Man, Hare Krishna hardcore music, ecstatic dance and so-called eco-terrorists twenty years later, this essay describes my journey as an academic through what many other religious studies scholars might consider the fringe o...

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Published in:The pomegranate
Main Author: Pike, Sarah M. 1959- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox Publ. [2015]
In: The pomegranate
Further subjects:B Pagan festivals
B Sacred Space
B Childhood
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Summary:From studying Pagan festivals as a graduate student to writing about Burning Man, Hare Krishna hardcore music, ecstatic dance and so-called eco-terrorists twenty years later, this essay describes my journey as an academic through what many other religious studies scholars might consider the fringe of our academic purview. In the essay I consider the ways in which the concerns that emerged in my earliest work in Pagan Studies-sacred space, the role of memory in identity construction, relationships with the more-than-human world, ritual creativity, religious freedom, childhood experience and religious improvisation-continue to be central to my scholarship over two decades later.
ISSN:1743-1735
Contains:Enthalten in: The pomegranate
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1558/pome.v17i1-2.28296