neo-pagans

OK, not exactly in the Haley Joel Osment sense, but most neo-pagans make a point to honor our ancestors, those who have passed on, at Samhain.

Wes Isley: Between Scary and Silly: A Pagan Spiritual Reflection on Halloween Wes Isley 2010

OK, not exactly in the Haley Joel Osment sense, but most neo-pagans make a point to honor our ancestors, those who have passed on, at Samhain.

Wes Isley: Between Scary and Silly: A Pagan Spiritual Reflection on Halloween Wes Isley 2010

Wiccans consider themselves witches, pagans or neo-pagans, and say their religion is based on respect for the earth, nature and the cycle of the seasons.

Court: Custody ruling not based on mom’s Wicca religion 2008

The word pagan simply means country-dweller, although many contemporary neo-pagans are urban dwellers, as were many pagans in classical times.

Elizabeth Cunningham: Honoring the Elements: The Pagan Roots of Religion 2010

We take new names, sit zazen, become Sufis, Taoists, neo-pagans, devotees of Kali and Vedanta.

The 'Future of God' Debate Dr. Jean Houston 2010

And in fact if you look at the vast majority of religious people, tribal shamans, Unitarians and Anglicans, mellow Malaysian Muslim housewives, Taoists and neo-pagans and Buddhists and liberal Jews and partially lapsed Catholics, this in fact is what they are doing -- as are Existentialists and Marxists and Stoics and Epicureans and followers of the New Age philosophical life-changing seminar of the month.

THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART TWO Hal Duncan 2007

And in fact if you look at the vast majority of religious people, tribal shamans, Unitarians and Anglicans, mellow Malaysian Muslim housewives, Taoists and neo-pagans and Buddhists and liberal Jews and partially lapsed Catholics, this in fact is what they are doing -- as are Existentialists and Marxists and Stoics and Epicureans and followers of the New Age philosophical life-changing seminar of the month.

Archive 2007-04-01 Hal Duncan 2007

And in fact if you look at the vast majority of religious people, tribal shamans, Unitarians and Anglicans, mellow Malaysian Muslim housewives, Taoists and neo-pagans and Buddhists and liberal Jews and partially lapsed Catholics, this in fact is what they are doing -- as are Existentialists and Marxists and Stoics and Epicureans and followers of the New Age philosophical life-changing seminar of the month.

THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART FIVE Hal Duncan 2007

Winter Solstice marks the shortest day of the year and the longest night of the year and is for many pagans and neo-pagans the symbolic and spiritual rebirth of the year.

Cathleen Falsani: Do Whateveryouwannukah? Why I Won't Be Fa-la-la-la-la-ing In To The Gap This Holiday Season (VIDEO) 2009

Since then, interest in Lilith has only grown among Jewish feminists, neo-pagans, listeners to contemporary music by women (highlighted in the Lilith Fair), poets and other writers.

Lilith. 2009