Today's Faithful Friday from the Pagan News Beagle includes the pre-Christian religion at risk in Iraq; powerful traditions of women's equality in Cherokee culture; female occultists highlighted in Los Angeles; the Freakonomics of religion and what makes us self-righteous.
The magical religion of the Yizidis -- a minority group in Iraq that the US is bombing the radical Islamist army to save -- includes many elements modern Pagans would recognize, and for which they have been persecuted for millennia.
This wonderful essay from Indian Country details the powerful place of women in traditional (pre-Columbian contact) Cherokee society.
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