Best of The Pagan Web

Some stuff that has caught my attention.

Chas Clifton examines the claim that modern paganism is the fastest growing religion.

MacRaven has been pointing out several reasons why you should vote against the Christian Right.

The Pagan Prattle has the story about a man who is denied bail for being Wiccan!

The Green Man has a nice essay about the Autumnal Equinox.

Second Quote of the Day

“Brown’s book is an amalgam of one part gnosticism, one part paganism and one part Christianity, and it doesn’t do justice to any of them,” Witherington said. “It’s a smorgasbord that gives anyone who has an understanding of the history of Christianity indigestion.” – Ben Witherington III on “The DaVinci Code”

Quote of the Day

“Somehow, this melding of Judaism with Twelve Stepping struck me as even less probable than the notion of Jewish addicts. I think this had something to do with my sense that the Twelve Steps are, like Wicca ? goyish.” – Rabbi Mark Borovitz

Endo-cannibalism

Crooked Timber has discovered an interesting article published in Mortality a journal promoting the interdisciplinary study of death and dying.

“This paper discusses these events as ?the making of an ancestor?, and explores wider contexts in which they might be understood. These include Druidic involvement in the revival of cremation, Amazonian bone-ash endo-cannibalism, and popular means of speaking of and to dead relatives.” – Graham Harvey