Introduction to the Special Issue on Contemporary Pagan Ecospiritualities

This special, double issue of the journal (17.3 and 17.4) was initiated during the inaugural conference of Harvard Divinity School’s Program for the Evolution of Spirituality. The topic for this first gathering was ‘Ecological Spiritualities’. In email discussions we, the editors of these special issues, agreed that the topic called out for the participation of contemporary Pagan Studies scholars. In response to that call, we organized two sessions: ‘The Earth is Our Mother: Contemporary Paganisms and Environmentalism’ and ‘Being Pagan; Being of the Land: Ecospirituality and Earth-Based Activities among Contemporary Pagans’. The seven articles, three in the first of the two issues and four in the second, are revised and expanded versions of the papers presented during those two conference sessions. We also include several book reviews that complement, expand on, and further enrich the discussion. © Equinox Publishing Ltd 2023.