"The scholarship is solid, the presentation is clear for the general and academic reader alike, and the
detail often fascinating....This book deserves to go into paperback as soon as possible, so that it will reach
a wider audience."
--Fortean Times, 12/95
"It gives the general reader a...reliable picture of the history of the pagan cults and the complex development
of the Christianization process. It offers an interesting synthesis of the vicissitudes of the uprooting of heathen
thought and its success or failure; it is therefore a volume anyone probing into Europe's religious past will enjoy
reading."
--History of Religions
Routledge Web Site, May, 2000
Summary
A History of Pagan Europe is the definitive study of the indigenous religions of Europe and their practices,
beliefs and customs. Establishing Paganism as a persistent force in European history with a profound influence
on modern thinking, Prudence Jones and Nigel Pennick divide Europe into five broad cultural areas and traces the
expression and development of Pagan religion in each of them from earliest times to present day. From the serpent
goddesses of ancient Crete to modern nature worship and the restoration of the indigenous religions of Eastern
Europe, this wide-ranging book offers an often provocative new perspective of European history.
