American Heathens: The Politics of Identity in a Pagan Religious Movement Marie Ling McDougal president of the Sacramento Valley

president of the Sacramento Valley Improvement Company

A respected Bible teacher

becoming the first president of the Christian Publication Society

When the shadows from the past reach forward to cloud their future

In a fast-paced world led by technology

American Heathens: The Politics of Identity in a Pagan Religious Movement Marie Ling McDougal president of the Sacramento ValleyAmerican Heathens is the first in depth ethnographic study about the largely misunderstood practice of American Heathenry (Germanic Paganism). Jennifer Snook who has been Pagan since her early teens and a Heathen since eighteen traces the development and trajectory of Heathenry as a new religious movement in America, one in which all identities are political and all politics matter. Snook explores the complexities of pagan reconstruction and racial,