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The Asatru Alliance (AA) is a US American Ásatrú group, succeeding Stephen McNallen's Asatru Free Assembly (AFA) in 1987, founded by Michael J. Murray (a.k.a. Valgard Murray) of Arizona, a former member of the American Nazi Party and former vice-president of Else Christensen's Odinist Fellowship. The AFA seceded into two groups, the other one being The Troth. The AA represented the "traditionalist" or "folkish" faction, while The Troth represented "several new directions" of syncretism or tribalism. The Troth took an overtly anti-racist stance, the Asatru Alliance, characterized by critics as racialist and dominated by former AFA members, was for the most part a reconstituted AFA, dominated by prior AFA members, and acted as the distributor of AFA publications. The AA drew up bylaws to address the "racism" issue stating that "the Alliance is apolitical". In spite of this, Vor trú repeatedly endorsed the German Neo-Nazi Artgemeinschaft.

McNallen's group was revived (as Asatru Folk Assembly, AFA) in 1994, and the two organizations have existed in parallel since, temporarily united within the International Asatru-Odinic Alliance (1997-2002). The AA as the AFA advocates "folkish" Germanic Neopaganism, defining Ásatrú as "the ethnic religion of the Northern European peoples". The AA remained significantly smaller and more marginal than The Troth, because of "an insular organizational mentality and a tolerance for a large and vocal racist contingent".

The AA is headed by , publisher of the "Vor Tru" newsletter. The Ásatrú Alliance held its 25th annual "Althing" gathering in 2005. Kaplan (1996) estimates the AA has between 500 and 1,000 members.

Robert N. Taylor's Northway group, founded in 1976, similarly split in a Wiccan and an Asatrú faction, the latter developed into the Wulfing Kindred which joined the AA, but left again in 1999. Unlike other "kindreds", the Wulfings only take what they consider the "talented" as members, such as Michael Moynihan of Blood Axis, Robert Ward (editor of The Fifth Path) and Markus Wolff of Crash Worship and editor of Minotaurus.

References

1. Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, Black Sun (2002), p. 262.
2. Kevin Coogan, How Black is Black Metal? HITLIST February/March 1999, Volume one, Number one, Berkeley CA, USA & Oraclesyndicate.org
3. Vor Tru 1993:37, cited after Dobratz (2001), p. 7.
4. Vor trú no. 52, p. 42, no. 53, p. 50.
5. a judgement shared by Troth members (Hoglund 1999) and AA members (Stead 1994) alike.
6. Murray, Valgard. "AlThing 25 Report" (HTML). Retrieved February 2007. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help);
7. Goodrick-Clarke, p. 265
8. Vor trú no. 53, p. 47; see Alfred Schobert, Graswurzelrevolution von rechts? (1998)

• Crawford, Robert, S. L. Gardner, Jonathan Mozzochi, and R. L. Taylor. 1994. The Northwest Imperative: Documenting a Decade of Hate. Portland, OR: Coalition for Human Dignity.
• Tore Bjørgo, Terror from the Extreme Right, Routledge (1995), p. 61.
• Betty A. Dobratz, The Role of Religion in the Collective Identity of the White Racialist Movement, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (2001), 293f.
• Kaplan, Jeffrey. 1996. "The Reconstruction of the Asatru and Odinist Traditions ." In Magical Religion and Modern Witchcraft, edited by James R. Lewis, State University of New York Press.

See also

• Neopaganism in the United States
• Neo-völkisch movements
• Odinic Rite
• Metagenetics

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External links

• http://www.asatru.org/
• WikiPagan entry
• The Pentagram and the Hammer, Devyn Gillette and Lewis Stead, 1994.
• Written Texts and Reinterpretation in the American Asatru Community. Cara Hoglund, 1999
• New brand of Odinist religion on the march, Southern Poverty Law Center 'Intelligence Report' (1998).
• Odinism or Wotanism Today John Alexander, Arizona State University.
• Anneleise Glitz, One Folk or Ein Volk, Pagan Dawn, Samhain 2006, No. 161.

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