Beliefs - History Lab https://historylab.es Tue, 10 Jan 2023 13:38:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Beliefs - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Conversation between friends, Carole and Margot, about their interest in paganism https://historylab.es/conversation-between-friends-carole-and-margot-about-their-interest-in-paganism/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=conversation-between-friends-carole-and-margot-about-their-interest-in-paganism Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:42:20 +0000 https://historylab.es/conversation-between-friends-carole-and-margot-about-their-interest-in-paganism/ Carole and Margot discuss paganism. Carole describes how she became a pagan, although she was brought up as a Christian.

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]]> Her conversion started when she moved to Bodmin and met a neighbour who taught her about herbalism and the Celtic gods and goddesses. Margot was brought up as a Catholic and having seen how at ease Carole is with her faith wanted to learn more and dip her toe in the water.

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]]> The Database of religious history https://historylab.es/the-database-of-religious-history/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-database-of-religious-history Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:42:13 +0000 https://historylab.es/the-database-of-religious-history/ It is a massive, standardized, searchable encyclopedia of the current best scholarly opinion on historical religious traditions

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]]> The DRH is designed to serve as a centralized clearinghouse for scholarly knowledge of the historical record, bringing together a core of quantified, standardized data with qualitative comments, references to crucial resources, and links to on-line text and image databases. For scholars, researchers, teachers and the general public, the DRH will function as a gateway to reliable, comprehensive knowledge concerning the history of religions around the world, and cultural history more generally.

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