And Raise Me Up a Golden Barrow'
This paper will focus on the construction, in recent years, of a number of barrows, mimicking the Neolithic monuments, and designed to take human cremated remains in niches built into the construction. The fact that this initiative has proved hugely popular with Druids, but also with many others tes...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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British Association for the Study of Religions
[2018]
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Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religions
Year: 2018, Volume: 20, Pages: 67-82 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Neopaganism
/ Burial mound
/ Druid
/ Cult of the dead
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| IxTheo Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion AZ New religious movements |
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| Summary: | This paper will focus on the construction, in recent years, of a number of barrows, mimicking the Neolithic monuments, and designed to take human cremated remains in niches built into the construction. The fact that this initiative has proved hugely popular with Druids, but also with many others testifies to the power that the barrows hold over the imagination. Why is this? What stories are being told about the barrows, and do those stories have to say about connections to deep time', to the land, to each other, to community and to the future. |
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| ISSN: | 2516-6379 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.18792/jbasr.v20i0.28 |