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Neopagan Identity
Development
Dean Paulk
Spring 2018
1.
Why Neopagan
Identity
Development?
What is neopaganism?
“spiritual practice associated with
one or more of the indigenous (i.e.
pre-Judeo-Christian-Islamic) faiths
of Europe” and “is a subset of the
broader aggregation of ethnic/
indigenous polytheistic, pantheistic,
shamanistic, and animistic belief
systems found around the world”
(Saunders, 2012, p. 788)
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71.2% Catholic/Christian
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entering a LGB community
3.
Smith’s Theory of
Atheist Identity
Development
(2011)
4 Stages of Development
1. the ubiquity of theism
2. questioning theism
3. rejecting theism
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4.
Neopagan
Identity
Development
(Proposed)
6 Stages of Development
implicit religious identity
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