Michael York is a UK-based American Religious Studies scholar who specializes in the study of pre-Christian European religion and its relation to contemporary Paganism. In 2003, he published Pagan Theology, in which he put forward the idea that the ancient pre-Christian and pre-Islamic religions of Eurasia, indigenous religions from across the globe, and contemporary Pagan faiths could all be constituted as forms of paganism.
Describing his own religious beliefs and his affection for paganism, York remarked that:
"Myers' analysis confronts our very raison d'etre against our uncertain times. He asks the questions that most prefer not to ask." - as quoted by Brendan Myers on his E-commerce site.