TY - BOOK AU - Snook,Jennifer Stephanie TI - American heathens: the politics of identity in a pagan religious movement SN - 9781439910962 AV - BL 432 .S66 2015 PY - 2015/// CY - Philadelphia PB - Temple University Press KW - Paganism KW - United States KW - Group identity N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Becoming Heathen -- Fleeing the Cross and the Pentacle: Resistance and Opposition in the Maintenance of Collective Identity -- Neo-Heathens and Reconstructionists: The Project and Problems of Constructing a Heathen Nomos -- Cyber Hofs and Armchair Vikings: Building Community through Social Networks (but Not without Problems) -- Valkyries and Frithweavers: Women's Shifting Roles--from Warriors to Domestic Caretakers -- Honoring the Ancestors: Dealing with Issues of Race, Ethnicity, and Whiteness in Constructing an Ethnic Folkway -- The Long Journey ER -