Nature religions, commonly described as Paganism (or neo-Paganism), are growing in Australia. In the last Census, 33,148 people claimed affiliation with a nature religion: including Animism, Druidism, ...

If you’ve ever decorated a Christmas tree and thought, “This feels a little too magical to be strictly Christian,” congratulations — your intuition is correct and possibly clairvoyant. Christmas, for ...

Burma/Mayanmar has opened up to tourism in the last year or two and record numbers are now visiting this beautiful, mesmerising country. All visitors to Burma will visit the ancient kingdom of Pagan ...

This time of year, I often run across articles proclaiming Halloween a modern form of the pagan Irish holiday of Samhain – pronounced SAW-en. But as a historian of Ireland and its medieval literature, ...

In his writings, Aristotle discussed the concept of arête: the achievement of excellence in character. With arête one was not just competent or successful, one thrived. To achieve this thriving, ...