All Old Strange Things
Francis YoungReflections on my life as a historian and insights into my research on some of the stranger byways of Europe's religious history and folklore...
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Christianity and the problem of the gods
‘Pan is dead’ (1911) by George Washington Lambert
What happens to the pagan gods under Christianity? This might seem a simple question, with a simple (and indeed obvious) theological answer. Christianity is a monotheistic faith, so it disp...
In the shadow of Cottingley
Reading Bernard Sleigh’s ‘The Gates of Horn’
A hundred years ago Bernard Sleigh (1872–1954) published The Gates of Horn: a novel – or, more accurately, a series of short stories held together by a fictional conceit – about fairies. Earlier...
Scepticaemia
On historical scepticism gone wrong
The Sisyphean task of historiography, more often than not, seems to be the challenge of convincing people that outdated historical interpretations based on inadequate evidence are no longer viable. The c...
Please try to miss the woo train
On maintaining agnosticism in the face of high strangeness
Not long ago I had to stop reading a book, by an author whose work I had previously enjoyed, because I was unable to resist the conclusion that the author was boarding the ‘woo tra...
Why can’t we talk about numinous experiences?
Meister Eckhart sculpture at Bad Wörishofen (Wikimedia Commons)
If the title of this post seems a little ambiguous, it is intentionally so – for it is about why we so often find ourselves incapable of talking about experiences of the numin...
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