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MOBI ↠ DOC Drawing Down the Moon Witches Druids Goddess Worshippers and Other Pagans in America 9780143038191 FREE ´ ➞ [Epub] ❥ Drawing Down the Moon Witches Druids Goddess Worshippers and Other Pagans in America By Margot Adler ➨ – JohnTion featuring an updated resource guide of newsletters journals books groups and festivals Margot Adler takes a fascinating and honest look at the religious experiences beliefs and lifestyles of modern America's Pagan groups This book is a classic written in the 1980’s and has had several editions put out later Due to the age of the book there may have been many developments in the Pagan arena so some of the information might still seem dated The authoress herself passed away on July 28 2014 Since Gerald Gardner birth the modern witchcraft revival the Witch Craft Pagan community has grown by leaps and bounds The most popular facet of the Pagan movement is the growth of Wicca Gerald’s child The face of the craft has changed a lot since it’s inception especially here in America  Using interviews and research Margot Adler gave us an accurate picture of the Pagan movements growth In the beginning Wicca centered around the God and Goddess and one had to be initiated into a coven in order to practice Once the craft moved over to the United States of America things began top change radically The first change as marked by the Susan B Anthony Coven founded by Z Budapest represented the feminine version of the craft which is wholly Goddess centered This is called Dianic Wicca In terms of participation Wicca and Paganism have become les coven centered and festival and group oriented There was also a movement away from tradition towards being eclectic but now that is reversing The book not only covers the current trends in Wicca but also covers the history of witches and how people perceive them The most noted controversy regards the birth of the craft Some people say that Gerald made it all up and that there were no witches stretching back to the beginning of time Some like Margerite Murray feel that it was around In ancient sources there are mentions of Witches working Hekate and ISIS Practitioners like Isaac Bonewits feel that there may have been pocket of groups that worshipped the Goddess but not certainly all of them The medieval witches may have been a figment of the inuisitors imagination In any case there are three types of witches The first type of witch is the Family Traditional Witch Many of these are non coven based and very individualistic Their practice is not entirely pure as it has been contaminated with modern ideas The second type is the gothic witch who model themselves after the Inuisition witch The third is the modern Wiccan In terms of Wiccans there are many branches or schools  The first is obviously the Gardnerians and then the Alexandrians But there have cropped up other types like the Algards which combine the first two There are also Georgians and they have their own way of doing rituals Other orders that are new creations have popped up in San Francisco like the New Order of the Reformed Golden Dawn One of it’s founder Aidan Kelley has since moved back to Catholocism He  believes the Goddess most pof the Pagans are worshipping is actually the Virgin Mary She has the compassion In addition to covering witchcraft there is also coverage of Druidic and Egyptian orders in the Pagan Sphere Some have found their own path to the Gods like the Church of Aphrodite and Ferfaria The Church of All Worlds was creted with inspiration from Stranger in a Strange Land By and large Pagan if they wish to call themselves tend to be rather well educated city dwellers who have a strong ecological bent Many will want to use the term witch due to negative connotations while other’s wish to reclaim the word Some believe in secrecy to avaoid trouble while others are out in the open about things A great book for those just getting started into paganism

PDF ´ Drawing Down the Moon Witches Druids Goddess Worshippers and Other Pagans in America  Margot Adler

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 In this new edi It's important to get the most currently updated version I found the references section to be one of the most useful It's not a how to book or a BOS it's of a social study of paganism the culture history beliefs etc It's definitely a worthwhile read but it can be a difficult read There is a lot of useful information to be found in it As I said before definitely get the most updated version you can find

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Drawing Down the Moon Witches Druids Goddess Worshippers and Other Pagans in AmericaNow fully revised the classic study of Neo Paganism 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 One of the grandmamma books on modern Paganism There's a lot of fascinating history in this book but it's much of a snapshot of 1979 Pagan America and England plus a tiny bit of updating for the new edition But the new stuff felt less like the reconsidering the subject deserves and like where are they now? tack ons to the original material Many of the groups Adler profiled originally have dwindled or died entirely and several groups and movements I know were active in '86 are ignored completely Adler's psychological bias comes through strongly as well She gives primacy to the archetypalmetaphorical interpretation of deity where the majority of Pagans I know are adamant that their gods are real Might Adler have leaned toward the psychological interpretation even when her interviewees didn't espouse it? Or might she have been looking for people who had that interpretation from the beginning? This is an important book in the history of modern Western Paganism and I respect it for that but I don't consider it the indespensible read it might have been when it was first published in 1979 Maybe if I'd had the 2006 edition instead of the 1986 edition I would've been impressed