Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Diana Rajchel, author of the new Urban Magick.
Pagan, to a lot of people, means "nature worship." I've met many who resonate with this definition, and I do see where they're coming from. But as someone who is both Pagan and joyfully urban, I would like to take this opportunity to explain why I advocate for a more city-inclusive definition.
For those that see Pagan as an umbrella term for multiple religions, we acknowledge that some of those religions center much more around daily human life especially activities of governance and shared community. Hellenism and Nova Roma most certainly have aspects of the urban within their