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Pulsar discoveries set new pace for research.(The Dallas Morning News)
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Astronomers have found a stellar toddler adrift in the ancient cosmos.
The star is a pulsar, a small, ultradense object that flashes X-ray pulses as it spins rapidly. Most known pulsars are hundreds of thousands or millions of years old, but the newfound one is just 700 years old _ a mere babe by astronomical standards.
Scientists have also discovered a second, much older pulsar that behaves like a tipsy adult, wobbling as it spins. It may be slightly squashed, scientists suspect, which would account for its imbalance.
Together, the infant and ...
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A Community of Witches: Contemporary NeoPaganism and Witchcraft in the United States.(Review)
Magazine article from: Sociology of Religion
; A Community of Witches: Contemporary NeoPaganism and Witchcraft in the United States, by HELEN A. BERGER. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1998, 250 pp. $34...
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Either/Or: The Gospel or Neopaganism.(Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Ecumenical Studies
; Edited by Carl E. Braaten and Robert W. Jenson. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1995. Pp. 125. $9.99, paper. According to Gordon Kaufman, Doing Theology has been organized so as to suggest that "a rather sharp contrast is to be made between what is called 'evangelical
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Earthly Bodies, Magical Selves: Contemporary Pagans and the Search for Community
Magazine article from: Western Folklore
; ...non-Abrahamic religious traditions) Neopaganism. Pike focuses on Neopagan festivals...Although Pike does provide background about Neopaganism, showing its place in the larger context...problematic as an introductory text to Neopaganism as a whole: one may learn about a religion...
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Rants and caricatures.(Letter to the editor)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century
; ...start responding effectively to the neopaganism (some of it tricked out in Christian...real need is to turn people from this neopaganism to the gospel. This metanoia must ultimately...conversion, since politics founded on neopaganism is impervious to political argument...
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Paganism seeing a resurgence
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...out that contemporary paganism, or neopaganism as it is called, has nothing to do with satanic worship. Neopaganism is an eclectic collection of belief...spirituality was the driving force behind neopaganism; the polytheistic system of gods...
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Witchcraft and magic in Europe--and beyond.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft
; ...cults. To be sure, the founders of neopaganism based their teachings on serious misconceptions...such even in their time. However, neopaganism has become one of the most significant...to provide historical information on neopaganism and alleged modern demon worshippers...
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Halloween is only one of many pagan holidays
News Wire article from: University Wire
; ...recent upstart of paganism, called neopaganism, combines vague Celtic rituals with...and counterculture ideals. Pike said neopaganism has only been around since the 1960s...People of European ancestry use neopaganism to discover their roots and identity...
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Springs of Water in a Dry Land: Spiritual Survival for Catholic Women Today.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Theological Studies
; ...years, including the introduction of neopaganism, holistic health, and ecofeminism...Christianity (historical basis) and neopaganism (utopian vision) and issues of symbolism...who perhaps overlooked the challenge neopaganism would offer to historical religions...
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Witchcraft and Magic: Contemporary North America
Magazine article from: Western Folklore
; ...Berger seeks to convey a clearer image of Neopaganism in this volume, as well as to illustrate...Helen A. Berger, in "Witchcraft and Neopaganism," examines spiritual paths that have...religions comprise not only witchcraft and Neopaganism, but include distinct stand-alone...
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American Spirits
Magazine article from: Natural History
; ...America, her account is primarily an ethnographic study of Neopaganism in the San Francisco Bay area. Pike, a professor of religious...studies at California State University in Chico, approaches Neopaganism and the related New Age movement more comparatively. Hers...
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