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SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR - GELLAR BLAMED FOR PAGAN RISE
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GELLAR BLAMED FOR PAGAN RISE
Hollywood actress SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR's hit show BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER has been blamed for 50,000 women abandoning traditional Western religion to study paganism.
According to the recent British study published in Women and Religion in the West, young women have taken an increased interest in practising witchcraft after Gellar's hit U.S. TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer hit the mainstream.
The study's author Dr. Kristin Aune says: "Because of its focus on female empowerment, young women are attracted by Wicca, popularised by the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In short, women are abandoning the church."
The Church of England has declined to comment on the study.
26 August 2008 16:14
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sassy1 
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posted on 27/08/2008 22:17
I think Charmed would be more to blame for this than Buffy. The whole show was about
three empowered Wiccan sisters. That's all it wasd. Buffy was more about taking real
fears and "deamons" and making them a tangible monster that could be fought. The
wiccan aspect was actually minor. In fact, season 6 showed the dangers of an abuse of
wiccan power which also mirrored drug abuse.
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Buffy/Spike Fan ( 1)
posted on 26/08/2008 16:47
Come on! If any TV show showed women what Wicca was it was 'Charmed'. That's what
the show is all about. Three sisters who find themselves good witches after living
a normal first part of their lives. They spend the rest of the series fighting off
evil and trying to save the world. If you want to point to a character who practiced
Wicca in Buffy it was her friend Willow.
People decide to go a certain way by themselves. A TV show doesn't force them to
do something as drastic as change their religion.
