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Book Report Two: Paganism, an Introduction to Earth Centered Religions by the Higginbothams The Higginbothams’ book Paganism, an Introduction to Earth Centered Religions is a good explanatory book on not just what Paganism means and is but also about how it works. This book goes over the history and definition of not just the word, Paganism, but also give a bit of a synopsis and a little history of the different paths that are included in the umbrella term. I enjoyed the Scientific explanations of energy works and the out of the box personal experiences that they reference throughout the book. It gives the content not only a rational view of modern paganism and how people have reacted to finding out the Higginbothams were pagan but also gives

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