num_pages: 420
description: Even in pagan antiquity there were those who while participating in the communitys religious life did not believe in literal gods. In the centuries that followed the Christian domination of the West the epithet godless pagan was leveled at a wide variety of people. In the 1960s there emerged a community of people who sought to reclaim the name pagan from its history of opprobrium. These Neo-Pagans were interested in nature spirituality and polytheism and identified with the misunderstood and persecuted pagans of antiquity. While many Pagans today believe in literal gods there are a growing number of Pagans who are godless. Today the diverse assemblage of spiritual paths known as Paganism includes atheist Pagans or Atheopagans Humanistic and Naturalistic Pagans Buddho-Pagans animists pantheists Gaians and other non-theistic Pagans. Here their voices are gathered together to share what it means to be Pagan and godless.
language: English
title: Godless Paganism: Voices of Non-Theistic Pagans
publisher: John Halstead