Appropriating Halloween and Creating Liminal Times
Posted on October 23, 2007 by timvictor
Danger! Syncretism ahoy!
(Part of the Samhain Synchroblog “A Christian response to Halloween“.)
In the very small corner of my early Christian experience with a very small segment of the Christian pool, references to Christmas and Easter were met with disapproval. The former, Christmas, was viewed completely secularised and celebrating the latter, Easter, meant Christians were inadvertently worship Ishtar. Halloween [...]
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