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Ages of enchantment

Liz Williams’ friendly and authoritative history of paganism gets quickly to the point: paganism is defined on the first page of the introduction as a religion that is outside the mainstream of recognised “world religions” and sometimes focuses on a broadly defined “nature worship”. We could argue about that all day, but that is where Williams starts her journey.

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