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Book: New Antiquities

Chapter: Transforming Deities: Modern Pagan Projects of Revival and Reinvention

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.30637

Blurb:

This chapter examines a variety of ways in which deities from the ancient Mediterranean have been re-appropriated, re-interpreted, transformed, and invented for contemporary religious and socio-political purposes by local Pagan communities—especially in Greece, Italy, Iberia, and Malta—and by followers of the global Goddess spirituality movement.

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