Abstract for Online Program Book (maximum 150 words)
It is both an honor and a humbling task to review a book as iconic for both Pagan Studies and more generally for New Religious Movements as Margot Adler’s Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers and other Pagans in America. The book was published on Samhain (Halloween) 1979 by Viking Press; a paperback edition of the original book and three subsequent updated, expanded, and revised editions were published by other presses. This was the first book to present an overview of the, then still nascent but growing, Pagan movement in America. Its importance goes beyond its historic role as it continues to be cited in both academic and popular works.