Author Topic: Untraditioned polytheism? (Read 1690 times)

Kaio · « **on:** July 07, 2015, 10:12:29 pm »

I've read about it here.

Is there any untraditioned polytheist here?

Redfaery · « **Reply #1 on:** July 08, 2015, 02:06:26 pm »

Quote from: Kaio;176888

I've read about it here.

Is there any untraditioned polytheist here?

I'm curious what the difference between "untraditioned" and "eclectic" is? I mean, other than that "eclectic" has very unfortunately gained a lot of negative baggage...

Kaio · « **Reply #2 on:** July 08, 2015, 04:50:47 pm »

Quote from: Redfaery;176897

I'm curious what the difference between "untraditioned" and "eclectic" is? I mean, other than that "eclectic" has very unfortunately gained a lot of negative baggage...

I don't know.
Maybe untraditioned means that there is no definite religious framework on which one builds one's eclectic religious practice (as opposed to just eclectic, that commonly seems to be the case of people that develop an eclectic practice within a more or less definite religious framework)?

Lux Nocturnalis · « **Reply #3 on:** July 08, 2015, 06:00:40 pm »

Quote from: Kaio;176900

I don't know.
Maybe untraditioned means that there is no definite religious framework on which one builds one's eclectic religious practice (as opposed to just eclectic, that commonly seems to be the case of people that develop an eclectic practice within a more or less definite religious framework)?

Hmm. I don't know about that. Most eclectics I know don't follow a definite religious framework.

Louisvillian · « **Reply #4 on:** July 08, 2015, 07:10:27 pm »

Quote from: Redfaery;176897

I'm curious what the difference between "untraditioned" and "eclectic" is? I mean, other than that "eclectic" has very unfortunately gained a lot of negative baggage...

Perhaps it's a neologism, with the intent to break from that baggage? Like how Reconstructionism kinda-sorta broke from the 'Neopagan' label because of the fluff-bunny connotations the latter term had accrued over time.
Less cynically, maybe they developed it to refer to eclectic pagans who don't have a grounding in Wicca-shaped customs that are otherwise ubiquitous in Eclecticism.