All Old Strange Things

All Old Strange Things

Schrödinger's paganism

Religion, nationhood and the ‘supernaturalised secular’

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Francis Young
May 11, 2026
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An Uatsdin shrine in Ossetia (Wikimedia Commons)

A few weeks ago Elizaveta Chukharova published a fascinating article about the Ossetian religion of Uatsdin, ‘the most successful pagan faith in the world’. The article itself qualifies the claim that Uatsdin is, in fact, pagan – and even casts some doubt on whether Uatsdin is really a religion at all. In …

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