>In a message dated 9-27-1999 8:17:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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>> >Sometimes I dream of a world in which the word 'pagan' was banished from
>> >scholarly discourse.
>> >
>>
>> Don't just dream - ban it! I do. Every semester I forbid my students to
>> use the word.
>
>
> what word do you have them use instead?
>
As I pointed out in my posting, they are usually referring to Classical or
Norse mythology - I have them use those words instead of Pagan.
Non-Christian would also do, I suppose. Sometimes they just mean the whole
Classical frame of reference, in which case "Classicism" is the word.
Pippin Michelli, Ph.D
Assistant Professor of Art History, St Olaf College, MN
http://www.stolaf.edu/people/michelli/index4.html
Pippin Michelli
Art Department
St Olaf College, MN
http:www.stolaf.edu/people/michelli/index4.html
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