Mysteria Misc. Maxima: December 28th, 2012

Mysteria Misc. Maxima is a weekly feature which brings together links on religion and esotericism from around the internet.

• Allegations of forgery and slander are at the center of a lawsuit launched by the Naked Archaeologist. Clothed archaeologists are not pleased. (Portable Antiquity Collecting via Rogue Classiscism)
• England says Scientology chapels are not religious enough for marriage ceremonies. (Guardian via @TeemuTaira)
• Planning a trip to Hell? Then you’ll want this handy travel guide to the inferno below. (The Economist via PaleoJudaica)
• These modern churches have some amazing architecture. (My Modern Met)
• Buddhists are angry over an inaccurate newspaper article. In related news, Buddhists are shocked to learn that newspapers are inaccurate. (Angry Asian Buddhist via @FullContactTMcG)
• Martine Batchelor shares her experience with Buddhism, Zen, and Meditation. (Aeon Magazine via @erik_davis)
• More folks are officially declaring themselves non-religious. Here are five books to help you understand the phenomenon. (Religion Dispatches)
• April DeConick discusses her research on the fringes of Christianity. (The Forbidden Gospels)
• Meet Mayra, a practitioner of Santeria and freelance witch. (Reuters)
• The University of Cambridge gets some new papyri. (History of the Ancient World)
• Humanistic Paganism is doing a nifty interview series with prominent pagans, including this one with The Wild Hunt’s Jason Pitzl-Waters. (Humanistic Paganism)
• So, everyone on the other side of the Prime Meridian, do you position your altar so it faces the East or Boleskine? (Standing at the Centre)
• The Hermetic Library is looking for contributions to its new journal. (Hermetic Library)
• The Egyptian Museum in Cairo, home of the Stele of Revealing, is getting a makeover. (The Egyptiana Emporium)
• No one will ever accuse the Golden Dawn of being too sexy, since they cared not for that sort of thing, even with that fetching devil Yeats around. (Magic of the Ordinary)
• Will the Rider-Waite Tarot deck soon be in the public domain? (The Wild Hunt)
• Finally, the latest rage in Chinese psychotherapy is lying in a coffin and pretending you’re dead. While extremely experimental, patients say the technique beats the alternative method of cremation therapy; involves less velvet and Bauhaus than going goth.  (Reuters)

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