Stephen Anthony McNallen is an American proponent of Heathenry, a modern Pagan new religious movement, and a white nationalist activist. He founded the Viking Brotherhood in 1969 to 1970, transformed it into the Asatru Free Assembly, and later founded the Asatru Folk Assembly, which he led from 1994 until 2016; he espoused a belief he called metagenetics, holding that Heathenry was suitable only for those of Northern European ancestry, and he is regarded as a controversial figure within the Heathen and wider Pagan community over this stance.
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Third of three successive organizations McNallen founded. Independently re-fetched live this session from the raw MediaWiki extracts API as a spot check: "The Asatru Folk Assembly (AFA) is an international Heathen organization based in the United States. It was founded by Stephen A. McNallen in 1994."
Second of three successive organizations McNallen founded; converted from the Viking Brotherhood in 1976, later closed in 1986.
First of three successive organizations McNallen founded (Viking Brotherhood, then Asatru Free Assembly, then Asatru Folk Assembly), all documented on one shared Wikipedia page.
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1. Stephen McNallen (Wikipedia)
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is an American proponent of Heathenry, a modern Pagan new religious movement, and a white nationalist activist. He founded the Asatru Folk Assembly (AFA), which he led from 1994 until 2016, having previously been the founder of the Viking Brotherhood and the Asatrú Free Assembly.
Asatru Folk Assembly (Wikipedia)
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McNallen formed the Viking Brotherhood in Texas at the start of the 1970s.
Asatru Folk Assembly (Wikipedia)
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In 1976, when he had relocated to California, he converted it into the Asatru Free Assembly, which was the first national Heathen organisation in the United States.
Asatru Folk Assembly (Wikipedia)
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The Asatru Folk Assembly (AFA) is an international Heathen organization based in the United States, founded by Stephen A. McNallen in 1994 after he had closed his earlier Asatru Free Assembly in 1986.
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