US Pagans and Indigenous Americans

Land and Identity

Bibliographic Data

ID3471980
AuthorsLisa A Mcloughlin (Independent Scholar, Northfield, MA 01360, USA, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume10
Issue3
Pages152
Publication date2019-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligions (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel10030152
OpenAlexW2919232709
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited13

In contrast to many European Pagan communities, ancestors and traditional cultural knowledge of Pagans in the United States of America (US Pagans) are rooted in places we no longer reside. Written from a US Pagan perspective, for an audience of Indigenous Americans, Pagans, and secondarily scholars of religion, this paper frames US Paganisms as bipartite with traditional and experiential knowledge; explores how being transplanted from ancestral homelands affects US Pagans' relationship to the land we are on, to the Indigenous people of that land, and any contribution these may make to the larger discussion of indigeneity; and works to dispel common myths about US Pagans by offering examples of practices that the author suggests may be respectful to Indigenous American communities, while inviting Indigenous American comments on this assessment

Aesthetics · Art · Biology · Environmental ethics · Ethnology · Experiential learning · Indigenous · Mythology · Native american · Sociology · Anthropology · Classics · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Philosophy · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices · Ecology