Another World, November 2021 Edition
Welcome to the eleventh edition of our supporters’ journal, Another World!
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In this month’s Another World
THE PAGAN MUSIC LIST 15
This edition features three bands: Vévaki, Anilah, Eldrim
Also, the full archive of previous public editions is now updated here.
The opening section of Peter Grey’s recent book, The Two Antichrists, read by Rhyd Wildermuth.
Rhyd Wildermuth’s review of the latest book from Peter Grey.
Just beyond the edge of capital’s silhouette, there in the subtle penumbra of the political struggles of race and colonization, in the legacy of abductions of children into Canadian residential schools, Australian and American displacements of natives and aboriginals, and ultimately the catastrophic changes to the climate of the earth itself was a whisper from a sorcerer who claimed hear whispers from beyond the stars.
Our first essay from writer Aidan Simardone, examining the complicated and fraught relationship between governments and New Religious Movements through the lens of the Waco massacre.
The problem is that NRMs are only portrayed as dangerous. Just as depicting Muslims only as terrorists leads to Islamophobia, so too does depicting NRMs only as dangerous lead to discrimination—regardless of whether the danger is there.
Using the term “cults” strengthens this association between NRMs and danger. The term “cult” originally comes from the Latin word “cultus,” which means care, adoration or labour. The etymology appears in words like agriculture, which joins “cultus” with “agrum” (land or field), literally meaning “care of land”. In the 17th century “cult” meant worship, without negative connotations. One of the word’s first uses in the English language was the “cult of Mary,”, in reference to adoration of the Virgin Mary.
Ironically, while now used against NRMs, in the mid-19th century “cult” referred to ancient, pre-Christian forms of religion. At this point, “cults” became associated with non-Christian practice. In the late 19th century, it came to mean its current use, which the Oxford English Dictionary defines as a “relatively small group of people having (esp. religious) beliefs or practices regarded by others as strange or sinister.”
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