{"id":685,"date":"2006-07-01T17:41:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-01T17:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=685"},"modified":"2006-07-01T17:41:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-01T17:41:00","slug":"margot-adler-speaks-on-paganism-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=685","title":{"rendered":"Margot Adler Speaks on Paganism Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

Margot Adler’s talk from the recent Unitarian Universalist General Assembly is summarized here<\/a>, together with video links.<\/p>\n

Jason Pitzl-Waters has more commentary<\/a>. Here’s mine:<\/p>\n

Adler, who became interested in paganism, and in particular, Wicca, during the sixties, remembers that in those days paganism was a coven-based movement. You had to join a coven to find out about paganism. No neighborhood coven? No connection.<\/em><\/p>\n

She is looking back through the rose-tinted glasses of nostalgia and perhaps the filter of her own experience. Actually, there were plenty of people in the 1960s or 1970s who were solitary, who had read a book or two and started practising on their own. They believed that somewhere<\/em> there were covens, but they had not found any. But that lack did not stop them.<\/p>\n

The only difference was that solitary Witchcraft did not feel respectable until Scott Cunningham made it more so.<\/p>\n

Gerald Gardner’s writing reached America in the 1950s, after all, and began having an immediate effect.<\/p>\n

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Margot Adler’s talk from the recent Unitarian Universalist General Assembly is summarized here, together with video links. Jason Pitzl-Waters has more commentary. Here’s mine: Adler, who became interested in paganism, and in particular, Wicca, during the sixties, remembers that in those days paganism was a coven-based movement. 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