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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
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Publication and Frequency
May and November
ISSN 1528-0268 (print)
ISSN 1743-1735 (online)
Editor's Blog
The Power and Sorrow of Gododdin | |
| Two things arrived together in a package from Amazon: a new Bluetooth mouse, currently in use, and leading Welsh poet Gillian Clarke’s new version of Y Gododdin, titled The Gododdin: Lament for the Fallen. I first encountered the poem in my early twenties — was it while shelving books in the college library, being puzzled […] | |
| Posted: 2025-03-28 | More... |
My Thoughts on Pagan Studies, in Podcast Form | |
| In February I was interviewed by Robin Douglas, an independent scholar in London who has published in various places, including The Pomegranate, and is the co-author of a new book, Paganism Persisting: A History of European Paganisms since Antiquity. So you can hear a sort of scratchy-voiced me (winter respiratory crap) talking about the field […] | |
| Posted: 2025-03-22 | More... |
We Love Trees, and We Live with Their Bodies | |
| A forestry “masticator,” which mulches small trees and large branches, is here used to pull a ponderosa pine trunk off a hillside. On Thursday, February 27th, M and I went on a city shopping trip, returning mid-afternoon. I heard a chainsaw running and thought it was a neighbor cutting road. Then another saw coughed to […] | |
| Posted: 2025-03-05 | More... |
A ‘Cookbook’ for Tarot | |
| When I was in college and learning to cook, I looked at a lot of cookbooks — books owned by my friends who were “foodies” avant la lettre. But the trouble with cookbooks is that they were one self-contained recipe after another. “What I need,” I thought, “was a ‘process’ cookbook. It would say something […] | |
| Posted: 2025-02-25 | More... |
Wassailing the Apple Trees Revived in the West of England | |
| Em Sibley, the “wassail queen,” after successfully completing the ceremony at Sheppy’s farm in Bradford-on-Tone, England (New York TImes). From the New York TImes (February 13, 2025) A jet of steam rises with a hiss as a red hot poker plunges into a bowl of cider. A garlanded woman spears a piece of toast with […] | |
| Posted: 2025-02-15 | More... |
Did the Professor Die for What He Knew of His Mentor’s Past? | |
| Shortly after 1 p.m. on May 21, 1991, a secretary working on the third floor of Swift Hall at the University of Chicago heard a faint “pop,” as she described it. The sound came from the men’s restroom next to her office. It was produced by a .25-caliber (6.35 mm) pistol that had fired one […] | |
| Posted: 2025-02-12 | More... |
Does the Pagan Resurgence Start with Folklore? | |
| “Politics is downstream from culture,” people like to say online — which is just a re-statement of something that I have long believed, that “Life imitates Art.” Maybe I am just reflecting my online environment and the podcasts that I listen to, but folklore is suddenly big. My feed has a lot of British contributors […] | |
| Posted: 2025-01-11 | More... |
A Waking Dream: The New Age Salvation Army | |
| This is what a background in religious studies plus sleep-deprivation will do to you. On Friday I was in Manitou Springs, the old spa town on the west side of Colorado Springs, where I spent most of my twenties and had various formative experiences, such as meeting my wife, forming a coven, running a business, […] | |
| Posted: 2024-12-22 | More... |
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