Ascendant II is available

I'm delighted to announce that Ascendant II: Theology for  Modern Polytheists is now available for sale. Regular readers will recall that Ascendant I came out at the beginning of this year and got an enthusiastic reception from polytheists interested in the intellectual side of their faith; the interest was substantial enough that Neos Alexandria, the group that published the first volume, immediately made plans for another. It apparently didn't take long to get a flurry of first-rate essays -- and so here it is. The essays in this volume are: 

"On the Goodness of the Gods: An Essay in Moral Theology" by John Michael Greer

 

"On Idols and Myths: The Gods as Real and Sensory Objects" by Brandon Hensley

 

"The Theology of Personal Experience" by John Beckett

 

"The Case for Cultural Appropriation in Contemporary Paganism" by Wayne Keysor

 

"Applying Cross-Cultural Methods of Myth Interpretation to the Myth of Baldr’s Death" by Ky Greene 

 

"Modern Science and Contemporary Paganism: Uneasy Friends, Amicable Rivals "by Wayne Keysor

 

"God Among Many Gods: Deploying a Classical Christian Proof for Polytheistic Religion" by Brandon Hensley

Serious stuff, well worth close reading and long intervals of thought. I'm delighted to see the polytheist revival unfold this degree of scholarship and intellectual depth along with its increasingly passionate devotional sphere and its increasingly lively influence on the arts and literature. The gods and goddesses are back in town! (Well, actually, they never went anywhere; some of us humans just got clueless about them for a while.) 

Interested? You can order copies here.