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Essay / Kemetic Orthodoxy - 566
The following article examines Kemetic Orthodoxy, an Egyptian revival religion that developed a community largely through Internet communication. Most people who become members of Kemetic Orthodoxy learn about the faith, meet other believers, convert, and worship online. To compare and contrast religion, researchers used Wicca as the second religion on the Internet. Using critical thinking methods to analyze the article, the following were discovered: There are several assumptions, ambiguities, errors, and personal biases in the article. The data and methods used to gather information to write the article required sixteen weeks of participation in an online group, face-to-face, telephone and email interviews with the founders, a priest, a priest in training and a member of Kemetic Orthodoxy. There is no mention of such information being collected about the Wicca religion. This is either an oversight by the authors or a biased intention in the written documentation. The author of the article provides an overview of the Kemetic Orthodox religion, but no such information is provided on the Wicca religion. As I read the article, I notice that several errors are made throughout the document. The first that is defined as an existential error is the following statement: “In Gardnerian Wicca, people view themselves as part of nature and, therefore, as gods and goddesses with power (Krogh). » This statement is taken from Helen Berger, a professor at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, who conducted her research between the 1980s and 1990s. What is not stated is the difference between Gardnerian Wicca and Wicca in the United States. Gardnerian Wicca is European in nature, since it began and is still in effect...... middle of article...... the authors were trying to analyze, are they making a comparison of the two religions or how they compare to each other on the Internet? The reader has no real idea. The article reads like a PR press release about Kemetic Orthodoxy and the Wicca comparison is intended to make Kemetic Orthodoxy seem better and bigger. What are the results on the Kemetic Orthodox religion and the Wiccan religion? Both are on the pagan network...what does pagan network mean? It is a religion that is becoming more and more known throughout the world and whose number of members is increasing. As for the research and the authors of the article, it was poorly done. Several areas discussed regarding Wicca and witchcraft were drawn from research more than ten years old; what they should have done is gathered updated research and interviewed Wiccans, much like they did with the Kemetic group..