With one foot in academic discipline and the other in religious practice, reconstructionism is a unique approach to religious study.

Bertrand Russell observed that what most people know of religion was learned on mother's lap. Reconstructionism, by contrast, focuses on careful study of religious practices left behind during the onward march of conquering faiths over time.

The focus here is on what is commonly known as "ancient Greece" and the rescue of some old ideas & expressions of devotion deemed worth keeping in modern life.