Thanks to David Meadows for noting a new journal devoted to the study of “Hellenic religion” (Journal of Hellenic Religion). This is not an academic journal but a journal produced by those who wish to promote and continue practicing the worship of the ancient Greek gods. If you are interested in the study of neo-paganism (new, modern paganism), then, this may be of interest to you. To use an analogy: You wouldn’t want to use Pat Robertson’s 700 club show as a source of information if you were doing a research paper on the New Testament or on ancient Christianity, but you would need to watch him if you were studying and doing a paper on a particular brand of modern American religion.

For those of you who are not familiar with neo-paganism, it takes a variety of forms such that the single term is misleading. It includes people today who are devoted to the worship of specific deities such as Demeter, for instance, and those who claim to practice ancient Druidism, as well as others such as the Wiccans and still others that combine little bit of each, so to speak. Belief.net has an article on modern polytheism here. IMPORTANT: This is a case where it is very important to distinguish between academically-minded and religiously-minded websites that deal with ancient religions. The ones just listed are religiously-minded, produced by those who practice their “pagan” religion in a modern form.