Post staff writer
Last updated: 4:25 pm
August 26, 2008
Posted: 4:16 am
August 26, 2008
BLAME "Buffy."
The teenage vampire slayer is the reason an estimated 50,000 women a year are quitting the church, according to a study published yesterday in Britain.
"Because of its focus on female empowerment, young women are attracted by Wicca, popularized by the TV series 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer'," the report's author, Dr Kristin Aune, a sociologist at the University of Derby, writes.
"In short, women are abandoning the church," she wrote.
Young women are attracted to the pagan religion Wicca because females play a central role in it, Dr. Aune found.
And it's been shows like "Buffy" that are responsible for introducing young people to Wicca.
The research was published in a new book called "Women and Religion in the West."
Not surprisingly, the Church of England declined comment on the study.
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