Margot Adler's survey of American Neopaganism, first published by Viking Press in 1979 and revised and expanded by Penguin in 2006. Adler, an NPR journalist and Wiccan priestess, interviewed practitioners across dozens of American Pagan, Neopagan and Goddess-centered groups, and the book remains the standard journalistic-scholarly entry point for the movement's twentieth-century American history.
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The foundational full-length journalistic-scholarly survey of American Neopaganism, based on direct interviews and extensively cited in the later academic literature on the movement. NotesCited here for the founding histories of several 1960s and 1970s American Neopagan organizations.
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AuthorMargot Adler
PublisherViking Press (1979); Penguin Books, revised edition (2006)
Publication Year2006
Source Typeacademic monograph
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