Michael York is an American religious studies scholar, based in the United Kingdom, who specializes in the study of pre-Christian European religion and its relation to contemporary Paganism. In 2003, he published Pagan Theology, in which he put forward the idea that the ancient pre-Christian and pre-Islamic religions of Eurasia, indigenous religions from across the globe, and contemporary Pagan faiths could all be constituted as forms of paganism. Michael York participated in TEDxLambeth 2019 as a speaker.

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Personal life Describing his own religious beliefs and his affection for paganism, York remarked that:

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Books + Title Year Publisher ISBN The Roman Festival Calendar of Numa Pompilius 1986 Peter Lang (New York) The Emerging Network: A Sociology of the New Age and Neo‑pagan Movements 1995 Rowman & Littlefield (Lanham, Maryland) The Divine versus the Asurian: An Interpretation of Indo-European Cult and Myth 1995 Rowman & Littlefield (Lanham, Maryland) Pagan Theology: Paganism as a World Religion 2003 New York University Press (New York) Historical Dictionary of New Age Movements 2004 Scarecrow Press (Lanham, Maryland) The A to Z of New Age Movements 2009 Scarecrow Press (Lanham, Maryland) Pagan Ethics: Paganism as a World Religion 2016 Springer (New York) Pagan Mysticism: Paganism as a World Religion 2019 Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Newcastle upon Tyne) Matter Matters: End of Life Perspectives on Paganism2023Svarga (London)

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