Slow initial sales convinced his first publisher to drop the novel, but it went on to become one of the best selling Brazilian books of all time. In the following year, COELHO published The Alchemist. In 1986, PAULO COELHO did the pilgrimage to Saint James of Compostella, an experience later to be documented in his book The Pilgrimage. Before dedicating his life completely to literature, he worked as theatre director and actor, lyricist and journalist. Keywords: novel, religion, philosophy of Scepticism, and methof of hermeneutics.The Brazilian author PAULO COELHO was born in 1947 in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The results of this study, there are some characters that display different kinds of skepticism that is based on the idea and the tendency towards the concept of God. Hermeneutics method used in this study is to interpret the views, thoughts, and words of the characters in this novel that are relevant to Scepticism.

This research also uses a philosophical method - the method of hermeneutics, stated that human is a formal object as well as subject in philosophy. The approaches used in this research are literature, namely content analysis, and philosophy - scepticism. Religious Scepticism refers to doubting of given religious belief or claims. Scepticism is generally questioning attitude towards knowledge, facts, or opinions/beliefs stated as facts, or doubt regarding claims that are taken for granted elsewhere. Anaya (1972) reflects the philosophy of skepticism that displayed by some of the characters in this novel. How does Wicca view its relationship to the world of nature and does Wiccan belief and practice provide a basis for an environmental ethic?Ībstract: The purpose of this study is to demonstrate that the novel Bless Me, Ultima written by Rudolfo A. Themes and symbols drawn from nature are central to Wiccan belief and practice, but hearken back to a world far removed from the experience of most Wiccans.

These forms draw on images of wild and untamed nature – the Huntress God, the Green Man of the forest, the Sun God, and agricultural deities, such as Corn Goddess and Corn God. The divine is described both as an impersonal ‘force’ or ‘energy’ manifest in the world of nature and as deities – Goddess and God – who are venerated in ritual in different forms at different seasons of the year. Nature is considered to be ensouled, alive, ‘divine’: Wiccan beliefs encompass elements of pantheism and animism. Amongst these ideas is a romantic veneration of ‘Nature’. Its self-image is that of an ‘old religion’ a reawakening of the spiritual values, ideas, ideals and practices of Pagan ancestors. Wicca or Pagan Witchcraft is the most popular branch of contemporary Western Paganism.

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