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NATURALISTIC PAGANISM: A Challenge to the Paradigms of the Overculture

Sun, Jan 15, 2023

Mark Green

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Opinion, Pagan, Atheopagan

A Presentation to the 2023 Conference on Current Pagan Studies: January 15, 2023 THANKS for inviting me to present to the 19th annual Conference on Current Pagan Studies! I’d like to extend my appreciation to the organizers and co-creators of this event. We live in times of deep crises: Effects…

The Overculture vs. Reciprocity, Redux

Wed, Jun 22, 2022

Mark Green

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Politics

In western societies (like all societies), people have fundamental and largely unspoken assumptions about how the world is supposed to work and how we are to behave. Subscribers to these assumptions believe that they are inherently entitled to certain rights, for example, and that governance should protect these rights…

Reciprocity vs. the Overculture

Fri, Jan 07, 2022

Mark Green

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Principles, Atheology

I’ve been thinking a lot about the Overculture lately: how the dominant values and paradigms of our societies inform how we think, how we speak, and what we do. For a discussion of all that, I invite you to listen to this week’s episode of THE…

Being Rooted and Transcending the Overculture

Fri, Apr 26, 2019

Mark Green

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Atheology

Contemporary Paganism in the English-speaking world suffers from multiple contaminating ideas carried over from the overculture that suffuses that world. A part of our effort at liberating ourselves from these assumptions and paradigms through Atheopaganism must, therefore, lie in choosing and adopting different models for understanding ourselves in relation to…

New Carols for an Atheopagan Solstice

Wed, Dec 20, 2023

Mark Green

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Sabbaths, Liturgy

One of the things that can be hard about moving away from the Christian Overculture is that there is a lot of beautiful art that can become meaningless to you. Architecture, painting, sculpture, music…so many centuries of accumulated human creativity and effort, all illustrating the myths of Christianity. For…

Cozy

Fri, Dec 01, 2023

Mark Green

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Sabbaths, Atheopagan Life

Here in the northern hemisphere, it’s dark time now. Three weeks to the solstice, with lights going up on houses and cars with trees atop showing up in traffic, en route to home and decoration and love. There is the consumer frenzy of the Overculture, too, of course, but I…