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Welcome Nanji! I've never heard of Shenism, looking forward to knowing more!ThorSon's milkshake brings all the PF girls to the yard - Volcaniclastic
RIP
I have never been across the way
Seen the desert and the birds
You cut your hair short
Like a shush to an insult
The world had been yelling
Since the day you were born
Revolting with anger
While it smiled like it was cute
That everything was shit.
- J. Wylder
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Re: Greetings from SE USA!
Welcome to the forum.
A note on "pagan" is that it's a wide grouping that can broadly be defined as "not belonging to the Abrahamic faiths" though there can be some more nuance there. As one might expect this includes a huge number of faiths with virtually nothing in common! It's certainly useful, theologically anyway, to discuss but, Chinese folk religion will have little ..say kinship, with like Greek or Egyptian reconstruction, however there will be some recurring themes like somewhat animistic leanings and forms of ancestor veneration that crop up repeatedly in different cultures. I'm not sure how popular, for lack of a better word, Chinese religion is in the general neopagan community, but I do hope this place can be of some assistance to you.Circe
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Thank you for the welcome, everyone!
Corvus, that is very interesting and useful to know! I appreciate you setting the time aside to write that.
I'm also unsure of how 'popular' Shenism/Chinese folk religion (CFR) is in neopaganism, but it seems to me that there is a discrepancy between those considered practitioners of CFR/Shenism and those that actually practice it. According to an article I read, more than 50% of China is considered affiliated with CFR but none of them actually seem to believe in the old gods, if any, and animism. Most of their beliefs extend to ancestral veneration and/or yin yang, among other beliefs surrounding the spirit(s). I see this in my parents as well. In fact, when I asked them, only my father knew about the Jade Emperor, and neither of them knew about Jingwei or Mazu. They also weren't sure if any modern Chinese worshipped these gods, although I'm sure some do.
Of course, there are many variations upon CFR, so that may also be why there's a such a difference. But I'm just rambling. I like to think about this sort of thing. In the end, even though it's interesting, it doesn't really matter, haha.
Have a great day/night, people.
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Hello and welcome to PF!
i don't think you'll find any fellow followers of CFR here, but you'll find plenty of cheerleaders for your personal explorations of this path! PF, by its very nature, is an interfaith forum, so you are welcome, regardless.Last edited by thalassa; 11 Jun 2019, 05:04.Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of HistoryPagan Devotionals, because the wind and the rain is our Bible
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