Could someone please provide us with the references for the Orkney
ceremony? (apologies if this has already been done and I missed it!)
thanks
meg
> We must be careful here to clearly distinguish between "Pagan" wedding (for
> example) ceremonies continuing in parallel to Christian ceremonies, and the
> lack of formal Christian wedding ceremony due to cost or unavailability of
> clergy. What you describe as the "unchurched" are not people partaking of
> Pagan ceremonies, but Christians who do not formally take part in the Church
> ceremonies. In the US, there is an expression of such an "unchurched" but
> Christian wedding amongst slaves : jumping the broom.
> The Orkney case is one of an alternative (Pagan) ceremony, not a case of
> lack of formal Christian ceremony.
> Paul Spice
Margaret Cormack [log in to unmask]
Dept. of Philosophy and Religion fax: 843-953-6388
College of Charleston tel: 843-953-8033
Charleston, SC 29424-0001
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