#Neopaganism is an inspiration for openness about innovation and invention. But before 70s it pretended to be ancient; some brands still do.
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Recent historical research into the origins of
#Neopaganism, around WWII, cast considerable light on what it now is: http://amzn.to/1MafREx1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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Neopaganism & modern Buddhism invented about same time, to solve similar problems, drawing on similar resources—mainly 19th C Romanticism
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Hutton’s research showed how much more directly
#Neopaganism was rooted in Romanticism than had been realized. http://amzn.to/1MafREx2 replies 1 retweet 2 likes -
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No historian has yet asked to what extent the Asian Theravada reformers were influenced by European Romanticism, afaik.
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Japanese Buddhism explicitly imported gobs of Romanticism ~1900 (https://meaningness.wordpress.com/2011/07/02/zen-vs-the-u-s-navy/ …). How much J influence on Thai/Burmese reformers?
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