Drawing Down the Moon
Subtitle: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: October 3, 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 646
ISBN-13: 9780143038191
Subjects: Religion; Women's Studies; Witchcraft-United States; Cults-United States; Goddess religion-United States; Women and Religion
First sentence: "Paganism in America"...This simple phrase stirs deep responses in many people.
Description: 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.
Notes: Completely revised and updated.
Illustrations follow page 155.
Table of contents: label: Preface to the New Edition
pagenum: ix; label: Preface
pagenum: xiii; label: Acknowledgments
pagenum: xvii; label: A Note on Names and Language
pagenum: xviii; label: I
title: Background; label: 1.
title: Paganism and Prejudice
pagenum: 3; label: 2.
title: A Religion Without Converts
pagenum: 13; label: 3.
title: The Pagan World View
pagenum: 22; label: II
title: Witches; label: 4.
title: The Wiccan Revival
pagenum: 39; label: 5.
title: The Craft Today
pagenum: 90; label: 6.
title: Interview with a Modern Witch
pagenum: 140; label: 7.
title: Magic and Ritual
pagenum: 156; label: 8.
title: Women, Feminism, and the Craft
pagenum: 178; label: III
title: Other Neo-Pagans; label: 9.
title: Religions from the Past - The Pagan Reconstructionists
pagenum: 243; label: 10.
title: A Religion from the Future - The Church of All Worlds
pagenum: 300; label: 11.
title: Religions of Paradox and Play
pagenum: 335; label: 12.
title: Radical Faeries and the Growth of Men's Spirituality
pagenum: 355; label: IV
title: The Material Plane; label: 13.
title: Living on the Earth
pagenum: 375; label: Epilogue
pagenum: 457; label: Appendix I
title: Scholars, Writers, Journalists, and the Occult
pagenum: 461; label: Appendix II
title: Rituals
pagenum: 482; label: Appendix III
title: Resources
pagenum: 491; label: Notes
pagenum: 600; label: Bibliography
pagenum: 623; label: Index
pagenum: 623