{"title":"Queer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eA curated collection of LGBTQ+ literature, theory, and spiritual writing. This category includes queer fiction, non-fiction, memoirs, and explorations of identity and culture. 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Binding appears firm and pages are clean and readable, with light age toning consistent with age. Please see photos for the exact copy available.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1443\" data-end=\"1590\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"1443\" data-end=\"1466\"\u003eDrawing Down the Moon\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the landmark books on modern Paganism, Wicca, Goddess spirituality, Druidry, and alternative religion in America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1592\" data-end=\"1992\"\u003eFirst published in 1979, Margot Adler’s influential study documents the growth of contemporary Pagan and Neo-Pagan movements through interviews, fieldwork, ritual observation, and cultural analysis. Rather than treating witchcraft and Paganism as curiosities, Adler presents them as living religious movements shaped by feminism, ecology, mythology, magic, community, and personal spiritual practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1994\" data-end=\"2211\"\u003eA foundational title for readers interested in modern witchcraft, Wicca, Goddess worship, Pagan reconstruction, Druidry, feminist spirituality, occult revival, and the countercultural religious movements of the 1970s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2213\" data-end=\"2230\"\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2232\" data-end=\"2526\"\u003eMargot Adler was an American author, journalist, lecturer, and longtime National Public Radio correspondent. 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