Pagan Religions in Five Minutes - Suzanne Owen
2. Is Paganism a Religion?
Pagan Religions in Five Minutes - Suzanne Owen
Suzanne Owen [+]
Leeds Trinity University
Suzanne Owen obtained her PhD from the University of Edinburgh and published her
thesis as The Appropriation of Native American Spirituality (Continuum 2008). She is currently Reader in Religious Studies at Leeds Trinity University in the UK researching indigeneity in Newfoundland and British Druidry
Description
Gaining official recognition as a religion in some case may provide some protection in law and defend it against spurious associations with child abuse. However, many Pagans do not what they do as a “religion”, in the common, mainly Protestant Christian understanding of the term. In the UK, charity registration is one means of gaining recognition as a “religion”, which the Druid Network achieved in 2010. Another success was the inclusion of Pagan as an option on the Scottish 2022 census.