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Author Adler, Margot.

Title Drawing down the moon : witches, Druids, goddess-worshippers, and other pagans in America / Margot Adler.

Publication Info. New York : Penguin Books, 2006.
©1979

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Location Call No. Status
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  299.94 ADL    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  299.94 ADLER    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  133.43 ADLER    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  261.2994 ADLER    Check Shelf
Edition [Revised and updated edition].
Description xvi, 646 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Note Previous ed. published by Arkana in 1997.
"The classic study revised and updated with a new resource guide: over 300 listings of groups, festivals, publications, and websites."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [600]-630) and index.
Contents I. Background -- Paganism and prejudice -- A religion without converts -- The Pagan world view -- II. Witches -- The Wiccan revival -- The Craft today -- Interview with a modern witch -- Magic and ritual -- Women, feminism, and the Craft -- III. Other neo-Pagans -- Religions from the past--the Pagan reconstructionists -- A religion from the future--the church of all worlds -- Religions of paradox and play -- Radical Faeries and the growth of men's spirituality -- IV. The material plane -- Living on the Earth -- Epilogue -- Appendix I: Scholars, writers, journalists, and the occult -- Appendix II: Rituals -- Appendix III: Resources.
Summary "Almost thirty years since its original publication, Drawing Down the Moon continues to be the only detailed history of the burgeoning but still widely misunderstood Neo-Pagan subculture. Margot Adler attended ritual gatherings and interviewed a diverse, colorful gallery of people across the United States, people who find inspiration in ancient deities, nature, myth, even science fiction. Contrary to stereotype, what Adler discovered was neither cults nor odd sects, but religious groups that are nonauthoritarian in spirit and share the belief that there is no one single path to divinity." "This fully revised edition of Drawing Down the Moon has been expanded to include an updated resource guide of newsletters, journals, books, groups, and festivals."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject Witchcraft -- United States.
Cults -- United States.
Goddess religion -- United States.
Women and religion.
Cults. (OCoLC)fst00884980
Goddess religion. (OCoLC)fst00944175
Witchcraft. (OCoLC)fst01176327
Women and religion. (OCoLC)fst01177110
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
ISBN 0143038192
9780143038191
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