Pagan press review / produced by Margot Adler.

  • Pagan press review: Anti-defamation attempts by Pagans (Episode 3 of 4)

    this third episode of Pagan press review will focus on modern day persecution and defamation of Pagans, and the attempts by Pagans to fight back. Includes readings from the following: “The aquarian manifesto” by Isaac Bonowitz available either in The Samhain, The Green Egg (Missouri) or the October Gnostica News; “Witch burning now and then”…

  • Pagan press review: Wiccan feminist journals (Episode 1 of 4)

    A program reviewing the journalism of contemporary earth religions such as Feraferia, the Church of All Worlds, the Church of the Eternal Source and of course Wicca. Journals include The New Broom, Nemeton, The Witches Trine, Korythalia, Earth Religion News, and The Green Egg. This program attempts to show that the roots of our current…

  • Pagan press review: Matriarchy (Episode 2 of 4)

    This second program in the series “Pagan press review” will take up the question of matriarchy, and it’s relationship to Pagan beliefs and ideals. In this program you will hear readings from: portions of three articles on Matriarchy, published in the first and second issues of Nemuton Magazine; the anthropological paper by Paula Webster and…

  • Pagan press review: A rational view of magic (Episode 4 of 4)

    This program attempts to come up with a definition of magic acceptable to even the most hardened skeptic. Producer Margot Adler says, “Magic could be defined as the acknowledgement, acceptance, and use of unseen but natural forces.” Sources used in this program include: An ABC of Witchcraft: Past and Present by Doreen Valiente, St. Martin’s…

  • Pagan press review (Series record)

    Series record describing the Pagan Press Review, an examination of the magazines and journals of new age religions such as Feraferia, The Church of All Worlds and feminist witchcraft. r.1. Wicca feminist journals (29 min.) — r.2. Matriarchy (28 min.) — r.3. Pagans and anti-defamation rights (30 min.) — r.4. Magic (30 min.). According to…