Editor
Chas Clifton, Colorado State University-Pueblo
Letters and Review Editor
Christopher Chase
Send Books for Review to Christopher Chase
402 Catt Hall
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa 50011-1302
Editor Emeritus
Fritz Muntean, Vancouver
The Pomegranate is the first International, peer-reviewed journal of Pagan studies. It provides a forum for papers, essays and symposia on both ancient and contemporary Pagan religious practices. The Pomegranate also publishes timely reviews of scholarly books in this growing field. The editors seek both new interpretations and re-examinations of those traditions marked both by an emphasis on nature as a source of sacred value (e.g., Wicca, modern Goddess religions) as well as those emphasizing continuity with a polytheistic past (e.g., Ásatrú and other forms of 'reconstructionist' Paganism). The editors also seek papers on the interplay between Pagan religious traditions, popular culture, literature, psychology and the arts.
Metrics/Indexing and Abstracting
H-Index 2015: 5
CiteScore 2018: 0.14
SJR 2018: 0.111
SNIP 2018: 0.446
Publication and Frequency
May and November
ISSN 1528-0268 (print)
ISSN 1743-1735 (online)
Chas Clifton, Colorado State University-Pueblo
Letters and Review Editor
Christopher Chase
Send Books for Review to Christopher Chase
402 Catt Hall
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa 50011-1302
Editor Emeritus
Fritz Muntean, Vancouver
The Pomegranate is the first International, peer-reviewed journal of Pagan studies. It provides a forum for papers, essays and symposia on both ancient and contemporary Pagan religious practices. The Pomegranate also publishes timely reviews of scholarly books in this growing field. The editors seek both new interpretations and re-examinations of those traditions marked both by an emphasis on nature as a source of sacred value (e.g., Wicca, modern Goddess religions) as well as those emphasizing continuity with a polytheistic past (e.g., Ásatrú and other forms of 'reconstructionist' Paganism). The editors also seek papers on the interplay between Pagan religious traditions, popular culture, literature, psychology and the arts.
Metrics/Indexing and Abstracting
H-Index 2015: 5
CiteScore 2018: 0.14
SJR 2018: 0.111
SNIP 2018: 0.446
- Scopus Abstract and Citation Database
- Religious & Theological Abstracts
- ISI Web of Knowledge
- EBSCO's Academic Search Premier & Religion and Philosophy Collection
- European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH Plus)
- The American Theological Library Association (ATLA)
Publication and Frequency
May and November
ISSN 1528-0268 (print)
ISSN 1743-1735 (online)
Editor's Blog
Lifting up Love & Light in North Carolina | |
A mug with the Pagan triple goddess symbol is pictured at Quantum Soul in Carrboro on Sunday, Oct. 22, 2023. The student newspaper at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, does the annual Pagans-and-witches story but reaches out a little farther to interview a graduate student working in that area. “There are lots of … | |
Posted: 2023-11-04 | More... |
Go Light the Lantern at Your Door | |
Go light the lantern at your door and honor those who’ve gone before. The worlds that part us now are twain for Hallow’s Eve is here again. The westering sun grows pale and wan. The day grows dark, the nights draw long. The autumn leaves are ticked with fire; fruit hangs ripe upon the brier. | |
Posted: 2023-10-31 | More... |
Witch Like Me | |
It is late October, so naturally the best time to publicize Diana Helmuth’s The Witching Year: A Memoir of Earnest Fumbling Through Modern Witchcraft. It looks to me like she took A. J. Jacobs’ The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible (2008) and Wiccan-ized it. … | |
Posted: 2023-10-28 | More... |
Magic in the United States, a new podcast by Heather Freeman of U. of North Carolina-Charlotte, has just launched. As one of her panel of advisors, I have had the opportunity to listen to several episodes. They are well-organized and not t00 long (usually under 30 minutes). So far I have heard about the famous … | |
Posted: 2023-10-25 | More... |
A Knife in the Woods | |
M. and I went yesterday to check our favorite mushroom grounds. The radar had shown thunderstorms up there earlier in the week, but whatever rain fell had soaked right in. Nothing was coming up yet, not even LBMs. [1]The mushroom hunter’s catch-all term: “Little brown mushrooms.” Like “little gray bird” when you are looking for … | |
Posted: 2023-08-11 | More... |
Latvian to Head European Congress of Ethnic Religions | |
Latvian Pagan Uġis Nastevičs, a resident of Riga, was elected president of the European Congress of Ethnic Regions at a meeting in that city earlier this month. He works there as a translator and guide. The group defines “ethnic religion” as “religion, spirituality, and cosmology that is firmly grounded in a particular people’s traditions. In … Continue reading Latvian to Head European Congress of Ethnic Religions | |
Posted: 2023-07-28 | More... |
Ronald Hutton’s Gresham Lectures Available Online | |
The five lectures that Ronald Hutton gave this past spring in the Gresham College series Finding Britain’s Lost Gods are available for viewing online. Each lasts about an hour. Gods of Prehistoric Britain Paganism in Roman Britain Anglo-Saxon Pagan Gods Viking Pagan Gods in Britain Finding Lost Gods in Wales How Pagan was Medieval Britain? | |
Posted: 2023-07-19 | More... |
Bigfoot on the High Wire? | |
Everything is paranormal these days. Even Stormy Daniels, the porn actress whom Donald Trump made famous, also bills herself as a paranomal investigator and medium. (“How to arouse a ghost”?) Driving past a shopping mall parking lot last week, I saw an assortment of new-looking trailers and motorhomes and circus tents. The paranormal circus was … | |
Posted: 2023-06-13 | More... |
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