Against Satanic Panics > To Pagans and occultists

To Pagans and occultists

by Diane Vera

Copyright © 2006 by Diane Vera. All rights reserved.

Below are pages of particular interest to Pagans and occultists, concerning recent developments which may lead to a renewed Satanic panic, and concerning the effect of a Satanic panic upon Pagans and occultists.

• A budding new “Satanic” panic and the Pagan community
• Why it behooves Pagans and occultists to oppose a Satanic panic
• Mexico's Roman Catholic hierarchy and exorcism, vs. New Age and traditional healers
• Promoting religious tolerance
• More later.

See also the following pages, elsewhere on this site:

• The island of Lewis in Scotland, in 2003 and again in 2005 - recent SRA case where one of the accused was a Pagan
• "Satanism" scares and their debunking - brief introduction
• Roman Catholic opposition to the Harry Potter books
• Manifestations of the scare: censorship and pop-cultural paranoia on my page about Italy's current Satanic panic - and its impact on the Roman Catholic Church worldwide
• The West Memphis Three (1993)

See also the following pages, on other sites:

• On the blog Bartholomew's notes on religion:
• Satanic Panic Comes to Cyprus, 28 June 2004 - about Doros Theodorou, Cypriot Justice Minister
• Safety Warning: Keep Away from the Dalai Lama, 05 October 2004 - about Pastor Mariano Yeo, from the Philippines, now in California
• More later.

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