Dr Robin Douglas

A medieval Greek pagan evangelist Around 1450, a Greek man named Iouvenalios was executed by an official of the Byzantine Empire for attempting to revive pre-Christian pagan religion.

I recently appeared on the Christianity on the Spectrum podcast with Jon Machnee to talk about autism and my fields of research.

I’m enormously pleased to announce the launch of my latest book, Children of Starry Heaven: The Ancient Greek Transcendental Tradition, which is being published by Cherry Hill Seminary in South Carolina.

The forgotten history of the Labour Church May the strength and joy of God’s presence be with all who love their brethren in sincerity, Amen.

The piece below was going to be the first in a series of Substack posts on the Book of Abramelin.

After 9/11, various people in the West went in search of the ideology that had inspired the attacks and attempted to trace it to its sources.

The writings of an eccentric Spiritualist priest Modern religious culture is sometimes described as a ‘spiritual supermarket’ – diverse forms of religion and spirituality are offered by competing brands in a fragmented, deregulated marketplace in which the

A secularist church Alongside the history of organised religion runs the history of organised irreligion.

The following text, from 1934, claims to reveal a pagan society of man-hating women which was operating in an unidentified place located roughly to the west of London.

Below I have reproduced a piece which talks about the occult scene in Liverpool in 1857.

The Society of St Pius X versus modernity Also posted on my Substack If you are reading this article, you are probably aware that the Catholic priestly society known as the Society of St Pius X (SSPX) is planning to consecrate four new bishops on 1 July a…

The idea that Christianity is an “Aryan” religion rather than a “Semitic” one is usually associated with the wilder fringes of 1930s Nazi theology.

A vignette of Victorian Anglicanism In Victorian times, the Church of England was riven by battles between its different factions.

A Victorian inquiry into Spiritualism In this piece, we will look at an interesting but little-studied episode in the Victorian occult revival – a formal inquiry into Spiritualism which was undertaken by a group of London-based intellectuals in 1869-71.

The final post in my series republishing The Folklore of Herbs (1946), a book by Katherine Oldmeadow, who was a significant figure in the British pagan revival.

I have a new article on the Orphic Hymns out in Antigone magazine.