Word: neo-pagan
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...easy for Quincy House resident Devon G. Castillo ’08. Converting to Wicca was challenging for Castillo, who was raised by conservative Southern Baptist grandparents. Castillo, who always felt slightly out of place in church, disagreed with parts of the Christian faith and turned to Wicca, a neo-pagan, earth-centered religion. “It was sort of wild [when I converted].” Castillo says. “My grandmother thought I was possessed.” Conversion was difficult, but Castillo says it no longer divides him from his family...
...even given the album’s often trite enviro-spiritual themes and archaic aesthetic, Enya comparisons would be both unflattering and unfair. Unlike the infamous neo-pagan Yoga soundtrack artist-cum-New Age diva, there is nary a hint of affectation in Todd’s idiosyncratic alto...
...been at the very center of Catholic theology at least since the Gospel of John, and the church has allowed, encouraged and--in the case of the Inquisition--chartered the foulest of abuses. "We Remember" further contended that the Holocaust was the product not of Christianity but of a "neo-pagan" regime that had renounced the faith, but Carroll portrays Hitler as the heir to such church-sanctioned haters as St. John Chrysostom and Torquemada. "By tapping into a deep, ever-fresh reservoir of Christian hatred of Jews," he writes, the German dictator made the Catholic Church "an accomplice...
...raised a more serious objection. They didn't mind the sukkah per se, but they found the "Harvest Festival" that was held in it on Sunday night to be a tasteless, almost cynical manipulation of religious traditions in the name of multicultural diversity. The festival incorporated Jewish, Chinese and neo-pagan ideas about the harvest season. Several Chinese students door-dropped a "silent protest" to residents, arguing that the differences between religious traditions should not be blurred...
...Dunster House ceremony celebrating the neo-pagan, Jewish and Chinese harvest festivals has become the subject of controversy among Dunster affiliates...