Researching the Past is a Foreign Country: Cognitive Dissonance as a Response by Practitioner Pagans to Academic Research on the History of Pagan Religions

Authors

  • Caroline Jane Tully University of Melbourne

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/pome.v13i1.98

Keywords:

Modern Paganism, Reception of the Ancient World

Author Biography

  • Caroline Jane Tully, University of Melbourne
    Caroline Tully is PhD candidate with in the Centre for Classics and Archaeology, University of Melbourne.

References

Blain, Jenny, and Robert Wallis. Sacred Sites Contested Rites/Rights: Pagan Engagements with Archaeological Monuments. Eastbourne: Sussex Academic Press. 2007.

Cooper, John, Cognitive Dissonance: Fifty Years of a Classic Theory. Los Angeles: Sage Publications, 2007.

Kosso, Peter. “Introduction: The Epistemology of Archaeology.” In Archaeological Fantasies: How Psuedoarchaeology Misrepresents the Past and Misleads The Public, edited by Garrett G. Fagan, 3–22. London: Routledge, 2006.

Orr, Emma Restall. “Consultation on the Request for Reburial of Human Remains, Avebury, Wiltshire February 2009.” Museum Archaeologists News 46 (2009): 1–2.

Rountree, Kathryn. “Talking Past Each Other: Practising Multivocality at Çatalhöyük.” Journal of Archaeomythology 3, no. 1 (2007): 39–47.

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Published

2012-03-09

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 1 (2011)

Section

Opinion Piece

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How to Cite

Tully, C. J. (2012). Researching the Past is a Foreign Country: Cognitive Dissonance as a Response by Practitioner Pagans to Academic Research on the History of Pagan Religions. Pomegranate, 13(1), 98-105. https://doi.org/10.1558/pome.v13i1.98