HeyJaredHearth of Hellenism
Greek History, Religion, and Culture. Reflections on Contemporary Theolatry.
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New post at The Adyton: Beyond Balance (opens the original)
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Hello readers. I wanted to take a moment to let you know, if you didn’t already know, that I have a sibling publication to The Hearth of Hellenism called The Adyton. It is a publication dedicated to the practitioner side of my life and less geared towards strictly historical conversation - though history remains a grounding factor. I wrote in my new piece that The Adyton is a space where I can explore and write about religion not only in the voice of a historian, but also in that of a practition
“What Are You, an Atheist?” (opens the original)
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A claim I encountered recently made me pause and reflect. It suggested that someone can be culturally Orthodox without necessarily being confessionally Orthodox because, as a rule, explicit profession of inward belief is not central to Orthodoxy as it is actually practiced. It also asserted that in Greek culture, it’s often considered taboo to even ask about another person’s inner faith.Part of this claim is persuasive. Cultural affiliation does not prove private belief, and people may identify
Shared Gods, Different Communities (opens the original)
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I want to preface that this article is geared towards scholars working in the field of Pagan Studies, but I am writing to make this topic accessible to all. In this, I challenge researchers to abandon Hellenism, Hellenismos, and Hellenic Polytheism as analytic categories – the categories a researcher creates to organize and compare things for study. By the end of the article, you will understand why a new analytic category ultimately allows researchers to understand contemporary worship of the G
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