Адлер, Марго

Адлер, Марго Сусанна (р. 1946)

Шаблон:Infobox person Margot Adler (born April 16, 1946) is an American author, journalist, lecturer, Wiccan priestess<ref name=uuworld1996/> and radio journalist and correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR).<ref name="NPR Website">NPR Website</ref>

Early life

Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, Adler grew up mostly in New York City. Her grandfather, Alfred Adler, was a noted Austrian Jewish psychotherapist, collaborator with Sigmund Freud and the founder of the school of individual psychology.

Education

Adler received a bachelor of arts in political science from the University of California, Berkeley and a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York in 1970. She was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1982.<ref name=NPRBio />

Journalism and radio

Adler first worked for WBAI, FM 99.5, the Pacifica Radio outlet in New York City. She created the talk shows Hour of the Wolf in 1972 (still on the air as hosted by Jim Freund) and later Unstuck in Time.

Adler joined NPR in 1979 as a general assignment reporter, after spending a year as an NPR freelance reporter covering New York City, and has since worked on a great many pieces dealing with subjects as diverse as the death penalty, the right to die movement, the response to the war in Kosovo, computer gaming, the drug ecstasy, geek culture, children and technology, and Pokémon. Since 9/11, she has focused much of her work on stories exploring the human factors in New York City, from the loss of loved ones, homes and jobs, to work in the relief effort. She was the host of Justice Talking up until the show ceased production on July 3, 2008. She is a regular voice on Morning Edition and All Things Considered.<ref name=NPRBio>Шаблон:Cite web</ref> She is also co-producer of an award-winning radio drama, War Day.<ref name="NPR Website"/>

Neopaganism

Adler authored Drawing Down the Moon,<ref name=Viking1979>Viking Press 1979; revised ed. Beacon Press 1987, and Penguin Books 1997</ref> a 1979 book about Neopaganism which was revised in 2006.<ref>Drawing Down the Moon Spotlight in The Wiccan Pagan Times</ref> The book is considered a watershed in American Neopagan circles, as it provided the first comprehensive look at modern nature-based religions in the US. For many years it was the only introductory work about the American Neopagan communities. Her second book, Heretic's Heart: A Journey Through Spirit and Revolution, was published by Beacon Press in 1997. Adler is a Wiccan priestess in the Gardnerian tradition, an elder in the Covenant of the Goddess,<ref name=uuworld1996/> and she also participates in the Unitarian Universalist faith community.<ref name=uuworld1996/>

Bibliography

• 1979 - Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America Today.<ref name=Viking1979 /> ISBN 0-14-019536-X
• 1997 - Heretic's Heart: A Journey Through Spirit and Revolution (Beacon Press) ISBN 0-8070-7098-X
• 2000 - Our Way to the Stars by Margot Adler & John Gliedman - Motorbooks Intl, ISBN 0-7603-0753-9, ISBN 978-0-7603-0753-3
• 2013 - Out For Blood by Margot Adler - Kindle Single

Contributed to

• 1989 - Healing the Wounds: The Promise of Ecofeminism - Judith Plant (editor) (New Society Pub) ISBN 0-86571-152-6
• 1994 - Return Of The Great Goddess by Burleigh Muten (Shambhala) ISBN 1-57062-034-2
• 1995 - People of the Earth: The New Pagans Speak Out by Ellen Evert Hopman, Lawrence Bond (Inner Traditions) ISBN 0-89281-559-0
• 2001 - Modern Pagans: an Investigation of Contemporary Ritual (Re/Search) ISBN 1-889307-10-6
• 2002 - The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s - Edited by Robert Cohen and Reginald E. Zelnik (University of California Press) ISBN 978-0-520-23354-6
• 2003 - Sisterhood Is Forever: the Women's Anthology for a New Millennium - edited by Robin Morgan (Washington Square Press) ISBN 0-7434-6627-6
• 2005 - Cakes and Ale for the Pagan Soul: Spells, Recipes, and Reflections from Neopagan Elders and Teachers - Patricia Telesco (Celestial Arts) ISBN 978-1-58091-164-1

Discography

• 1986 - From Witch to Witch-Doctor: Healers, Therapists and Shamans ACE - Lecture on cassette
• 1986 - The Magickal Movement: Present and Future (with Isaac Bonewits, Selena Fox, and Robert Anton Wilson) ACE - Panel discussion on cassette

Interviews

• Drawing Down the Moon: TWPT Talks with Margot Adler The Wiccan Pagan Times Website
• Drawing Down the Moon Spotlight in The Wiccan Pagan Times
• Wiccans and Pagans KNPR Interview
• Margot Adler: Redefining the "Witch Word" Interfaith Radio Interview
• The Wild Hunt Interview

See also

• Judy Harrow
• Maggie Shayne
• Murry Hope

References

• Vale, V. and John Sulak (2001). Modern Pagans. San Francisco: Re/Search Publications. ISBN 1-889307-10-6

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Margot Adler was born in 1946 into a Jewish/Marxist/atheist home. From an early age, she felt drawn to the spiritual and would go to Mass with her best friend, who was a Catholic, in order to immerse herself in the music, incense, and rituals o f the church.

When she was ten years old, her class was taken out early on May 1 to the country house of her teacher’s sister. They had learned medieval May Day carols, and as the sun rose they started singing and picking flowers. They took armfuls of flowers back to New York City and threw them around the school, singing the May Day carols. Then the class danced around the maypole. Adler cites this as one o f her defining spiritual moments, and found herself drawn to rituals.

In seventh grade, her class studied ancient Greece, and she found herself drawn to the powerful images o f confidence and inner strength defined by the goddesses Artemis and Athena. They became her ideals. By age fourteen, she had realized the social impracticalities o f worshiping Greek gods and quietly filed them for future use.

In 1970, Adler found herself energized by the ecology movement as well as nature writers such as Thoreau, Eisley, Dubos, and Carson. She describes her reaction to these writings as religious, and found a new understanding o f the interconnectedness o f everything in the universe. She finally felt she understood her place in the universe as she never had before. Soon after, she read two essays that profoundly affected her: “The Religious Roots o f Our Environmental Crisis” by Arnold Toynbee and “The Historic Roots o f Our Ecologic Crisis” by Lynn White. These essays explain that there was a problem with the command in Genesis to “be fruitful and multiply and have dominion over the earth,” since it puts human beings above nature, allowing free license to destroy the earth. The essays also talked about older Pagan traditions and their notions that the divine was present in everything. She thought this older perspective gave a more sacred sense o f the planet and a reluctance to destroy the earth. She starred looking for an ecological religion.

As she traveled around the United States, she found many different types o f Pagan groups. She was attracted to the idea that some traditions were not universal-they weren’t for everyone. These were based on oral tradition and not the written word, and hence were more metaphorical and theologically more flexible. She found that as she progressed, she no longer believed in an exclusive “either-or” but rather felt that most dichotomies are nonsense.

In the end, Adler has chosen to worship with a Unitarian congregation while practicing as a Wiccan Priestess. She finds this gives her the balance she needs. She feels that the Pagan community has brought to Unitarian Universalism the joy o f ceremony, as well as a lot o f creative and artistic ability that will leave the denomination with a richer liturgy and a bit more juice and mystery.

Adler is the author o f Drawing Down the Moon, the classic study o f Goddess spirituality and contemporary Paganism, and Heretic’s Heart: A Journey Through Spirit and Revolution. She is a correspondent for National Public Radio; her reports air on NPR's award-winning All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition. She hosts Justice Talking, a new radio show on the subject o f the U.S. Constitution, which is produced by the Annenberg Center for Public Policy o f the University o f Pennsylvania. She also lectures widely on Paganism and earth traditions. She has been a Priestess o f Wicca for more than twenty-five years. (EK) (See also Wicca; Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans)

Margot Adler AKA Margot Susanna Adler America 1946 -present

Teachers: Aleister Crowley; Gerald Gardner; James Wasserman; Herman Slater; Ed Buczynski AKA (Lord Gywddion); Victor Anderson, founder of the Feri Tradition; Zsuzsanna Budapest, feminist separatist, Dianic Wicca; Judy Harrow; Simone de Beauvoir; Betty Friedan; Ursula K. Le Guin ; Rita Mae Brown; Shalamith (Shuli) Firestone; Fran Luck of WBAI; Kathie Sarachild; Kate Millett; Aileen Hernandez; Letty Cottin Pogrebin; Ann Snitow; Robin Morgan; Marilyn Webb; Ellen Willis; Anne Koedt; Jo Freeman; Kathie Sarachild; Anne Forer; Carol Giardina; Anselma Dell'Olio; Ti-Grace Atkinson; Susan Brownmiller; Meredith Tax; Elaine Showalter; Phyllis Chesler; Ellen Frankfort; Elizabeth Fisher;

Students; Catherine LaF**** AKA Flameweaver ; Pam C*** AKA the Pamazon; Eclipse; BoneBlossom; M. Macha NightMare; Chuck Furnace; Maggie Shayne; Murry Hope; Lisa B*** ; Friends: John Gliedman, husband (Rest in Peace, John, 2011); Starhawk; Selena Fox; Organizations: initiated as Gardnarian Witch; Spiral Dance Witch and British Witch, a sociologist and Teacher of the modern Wicca movement; Grand daughter of famous Psychologist Alfred Adler; Mistress of Chants; Author: Drawing Down the Moon; Heretic's Heart: A Journey Through Spirit and Revolution ; working on a Vampire novel; Comments: Witch and Community Organizer ; wonderful human being who has served the Community through her events, Workshops, broadcasts on Public Radio NPR and her book DDTM; Wicca; Neopaganism; be well, Margot, you are greatly loved; Resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margot_Adler; Our Way to the Stars by Margot Adler & John Gliedman; https://www.google.com/search?q=Margot+Adler+John+Gliedman&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a; http://www.controverscial.com/Margot%20Adler.htm; http://www.npr.org/people/2100166/margot-adler