Learning how "to relate with" by doing. Pagan Children's epistemologies in Hungary

In contemporary Paganism in Hungary, a widespread movement aimed at reviving pre-Christian beliefs and practices, elements of children’s worlds such as folk tales, songs and rhymes are important sources of inspiration in the construction of religious knowledge. However, children do not seem to be key participants in the ritual activities of practitioners reconstructing shamanic practices where rituals and ritualized events are the main loci of transmission of religious knowledge for adults. Drawing on our ongoing ethnographic research on knowledge transmission in contemporary Paganism in Hungary, this presentation examines how transmission frameworks operate at the intersection of activities inspired by the institutional culture of childhood (school and leisure activities) and children’s experience and autonomous learning. We ask whether there are epistemologies of relatedness with existing beings specific to Pagan children.