Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America Today — Margot Adler

Author: Margot Adler
Publisher: The Viking Press
Format: Hardcover with dust jacket
Edition: First edition, 1979
ISBN: 0-670-28342-8

Condition: Good vintage second-hand hardcover condition with visible shelf wear, rubbing, handling marks, creasing and edge wear to the dust jacket, including small chips and tears at the jacket edges. Binding appears firm and pages are clean and readable, with light age toning consistent with age. Please see photos for the exact copy available.

Drawing Down the Moon is one of the landmark books on modern Paganism, Wicca, Goddess spirituality, Druidry, and alternative religion in America.

First 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.

A 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.

About the Author:

Margot Adler was an American author, journalist, lecturer, and longtime National Public Radio correspondent. She was also an influential voice in modern Pagan studies, best known for Drawing Down the Moon, which remains one of the most important works on contemporary Paganism and witchcraft.