SRS 1110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: New Moon, Canola, Doreen Valiente

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: SRS 1110
• Professor: Shelley Rabinovitch

Document Summary

Terms: semiotics, gerald gardner, doreen valiente, alex sanders, (neo)pagans, wicca, druids, asatru. Ways in which people identify themselves or describe their faith. Idols: things that are understood as false depictions of god. Usually identify as "pagan" or "neo-pagan" to people outside of their religion. So they are not associated w/ the negative depictions of witches. Pagan = large umbrella term in the same way "christian" is. Less than 150 years old in its current forms. Self-identify as reviving or recreating pre-christian european religions. There is a clear break of when paganism was overtaken by christianity. Three major "traditions": wicca, origin od the word, wic: to bend (anglo saxon, not entirely sure, most common pagan religion in canada, spread increasingly throughout the world, extremely individualistic. "coven: one of the only religious paths where a congregation of one is legitimate. "solitary wiccan: female dominant, more "solitary wiccans" than wiccans in covens.