Re: Pagan Seminaries
Aicerno OCathasaigh
akiernox_ocasey@hotmail.com
Wed May 26 13:19:50 1999
Jenny wrote,*br*: Hi Searles,*br*:*br*: While I think most of this sounds great, I have some *br*: suggestions on the history section.  *br*:*br*: I guess my first question is, what is the purpose of the *br*: history requirement?  Is it to give the student a vague *br*: understanding of the course of history throughout the world? *br*:  A more detailed understanding of a smaller area?  Or an *br*: understanding of the history of our religion(s)?*p*One of the things that is eating at my brain waves is, what of those people who have already started learning a particular history? For my self, it is Irish history from the Neolithic to Modern Times. Also as far the history of our religions go, the only basis of material to work on is either from the romans or what rituals can be extracted from the various Welsh and Irish manuscripts.*p*: The first two topics suggested -- the Inquisition and the *br*: Salem trials -- have little or nothing to do with Paganism.  *br*: And while they're both fascinating, they're minor episodes *br*: in history.  Worse, they're episodes that are easy to *br*: misunderstand if you take them out of context.  Salem can't *br*: be understood outside of the question of the Great Hunt as a *br*: whole.  You can't understand the Inquisition if you don't *br*: know anything about the structure of the Catholic Church.  I *br*: don't think that either of them makes a decent stand-alone *br*: category for study.*p*It is true that as a stand-alone category of study, neither the Inquisition nor the Salem Witchcraft Trials can be properly understood without placing within the contexts in which they arose. Also, to my knowledge, neither the Inquisition nor Witchcraft trials really touched Ireland except for one witchcraft trial during the late 1300's (1380, I believe it was).*br* *br*Aicerno OCathasaigh
Re: Pagan Seminaries
Jenny
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Mon May 24 19:30:11 1999