A discourse is a paradigm, a collection of ideas, a linguistic frame of reference, a way of speaking about something.
Some pervasive Pagan discourses
- We are all incredibly oppressed ("the Burning Times")
- Tradition means something that has not changed since the beginning of time
- Folklore and folk customs come only from the countryside and have remained static for ever
- People who live in the country are automatically more connected to the earth
- Paganism means never having to say you're sorry (because we threw out the rule book)
- All men are bastards (and patriarchy is all their fault)
- All Pagan women are ball-breaking feminists who want to (re)introduce matriarchy
- The Great Mother Goddess was worshipped in the Stone Age throughout Old Europe
- Correspondences are like a magical telephone number for the gods (I actually heard someone say this)
- Wiccan ethics means an explanation of the Wiccan Rede
- Wiccan theology means an explanation of "The God and The Goddess" TM
- The main polarity of the cosmos is male + female
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