Historian of religions, paganism and esotericism.
Website: https://www.robindouglas.org
Posting in a personal capacity.
Dr Robin Douglas
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Christianity as Aryan - A Victorian rant
Crank theories that Christianity is an "Aryan" rather than a "Semitic" religion are usually associated with the wilder fringe of 1930s Nazi theology. But, as my latest piece shows, they go back at least to Victorian London.
robindouglas.org/2026/06/12/c...
Reposting for Pride month:
Memories of Old Gay Liverpool
Transcripts of a fascinating oral history project tracing gay and transgender life in Liverpool back to the 1930s.
pagesfromahistoriansnotebook.substack.com/p/memories-o...
Christianity as Aryan - A Victorian rant
Crank theories that Christianity is an "Aryan" rather than a "Semitic" religion are usually associated with the wilder fringe of 1930s Nazi theology. But, as my latest piece shows, they go back at least to Victorian London.
robindouglas.org/2026/06/12/c...
🚨 New post on my Academia account 🚨
"A Fascist Pagan Liturgy from the 1930s"
The text of an eccentric fascist Evensong liturgy composed by Alexander Rud Mills, an Australian lawyer, in 1936. It is incredible stuff - not only evil but toe-curlingly embarrassing.
www.academia.edu/128353737/A_...
Englishness is not about skin colour, it's about being outraged at the emergence of single-file queues in pubs.
Ok - this is up now.
If you want to read something about the SSPX situation from the perspective of a historian of religion - something which doesn't just tediously repeat the usual points - this is for you.
Links below.
There is a real fear that liberal democratic societies are starting to fail to reproduce their own ideology.
New article on Spiritualism in Victorian Britain - what happens when a strange new paranormal craze breaks out in a society which is starting to develop a dominant culture of faith in science and rationality?
"The Gentlemen and the Ghosts"....
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