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  NPR : Margot Adler
Adler's coverage as an NPR correspondent has included topics including the death penalty, affirmative action, the debate over family values, the complexities of the right-to-die movement, and the response of intellectuals to the war in Kosovo.
Adler joined the NPR staff as a general assignment reporter in 1979, after spending a year as an NPR freelance reporter covering New York City.
Adler received a bachelor of arts in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master's degree from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University in New York in 1970.
www.npr.org /about/people/bios/madler.html   (564 words)

  
  Book Review-Adler-Drawing Down the Moon   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Adler writes that individuals are able to participate in different groups and found their own groups according to their needs.
Adler went in depth with details of the Wiccan Craft, which I appreciated and found interesting, but she remained more on the surface when examining various other groups and the division is unequal.
Adler believes this word has a negative association from ancient times because the last people to be converted to Christianity lived outside of cities, many of these people maintained their traditional religious practices.
www.crab.rutgers.edu /~banner/adler.html   (1780 words)

  
  Margot Adler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Margot Adler (born 16 April 1946 in Little Rock, Arkansas) is a journalist and correspondent for National Public Radio.
Adler is a Wiccan priestess of the Gardnerian Wicca tradition.
Her grandfather, Alfred Adler, is considered the father of individual psychology.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Margot_Adler   (374 words)

  
 Alexandra Adler (1901-2001)
Raissa Epstein Adler, a radical socialist, influenced her husband’s views on women and served as a feminist model for her daughters and son, having come to Zurich to study zoology, biology, and microscopy because women were not allowed to study at the Russian universities.
Adler (1944, 1950) also reported at length on the disintegration and restoration of vision in one of the fire survivors who suffered from visual agnosia, most likely due to a lesion of the brain caused by carbon monoxide fumes.
Adler and the Harvard neurosurgeon Tracy Jackson Putnam (Putnam and Adler, 1937) conducted a post-mortem study of the brain of a woman diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, demonstrating that cerebral plaques characteristically spread in a rather odd, specific relationship to large epiventricular veins and bizarrely altered the affluents of these veins.
www.psych.yorku.ca /femhop/Adler.htm   (1304 words)

  
 Book Review-Adler-Drawing Down the Moon   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Margot Adler presents the religious groups she discusses in Drawing Down the Moon fairly and respectfully.
Adler went in depth with details of the Wiccan Craft, which I appreciated and found interesting, but she remained more on the surface when examining various other groups and the division is unequal.
Adler believes this word has a negative association from ancient times because the last people to be converted to Christianity lived outside of cities, many of these people maintained their traditional religious practices.
crab.rutgers.edu /~banner/adler.html   (1780 words)

  
 Adler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jacob Pavlovitch Adler (1855 - 1926), born Yankev P. Adler, was a (Ukrainian-born) Jewish actor and a star in Yiddish theater
Margot Adler, (1946-), author, journalist, Wiccan Priestess and Elder, NPR correspondent in New York City
Hermann Adler (1839–1911), the Orthodox Chief Rabbi of Britain from 1891 to 1911
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Adler   (539 words)

  
 Career Services - Cookies & Conversation   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Adler sat comfortably on the classroom table, her big smile and expressive hands punctuating her soothing voice, as she introduced three radio pieces she played for the audience.
Adler’s second piece stemmed from a childhood fantasy to be a falconer.
Adler leads a dual life as a famous radio reporter and the author of two books, one about the social protest of the 1960s and the other about paganism.
www.jrn.columbia.edu /careers/events/adler.asp   (596 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Drawing Down The Moon: Books: Margot Adler   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Margot Adler obviously encourages you to find your own conclusions from reading the book, and as a result it sets it up to be the best recommendation I could give for anyone interested in finding out if "wicca" or paganism is right for them.
Adler was out of grade school, and who was the initiate of several Craft and Neo-Pagan traditions long before some of those she praises were even a part of the movement.
Adler's credentials may be impressive, they failed to prevent her lacing what could indeed have been a great book with gossip and groundless criticisms of some who paved the way for she and her friends.
www.amazon.ca /Drawing-Down-Moon-Margot-Adler/dp/0143038192   (1443 words)

  
 Quick Quotes Quill: Interviews with J.K.Rowling, 1998   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Margot Adler: Much of Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone takes place in a phantasmagorical alternate world, at a wizard school called Hogwarts, a bizarre takeoff on a British boarding school, except that this school is filled with giants, and with Professors with names like Sprout, Snape, and Dumbledore.
Margot Adler: And Rowling says even before Harry Potter was a success, just writing the book saved her sanity.
Margot Adler: Of course Barcell is the manager of an independent bookstore, and one with the title "Books of Wonder." It will be fascinating to chart how far HP will go in the Muggle world.
www.quick-quote-quill.org /articles/1998/1298-NPR-adlertransc.htm   (1174 words)

  
 Margot Adler Biography
Margot Adler was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA but did most of her growing up in New York City.
Adler wrote Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America Today, which was published by Viking Press in 1979, and was re-released in an updated edition in 1997 through Penguin Press.
Adler is a Wiccan Priestess in Gardnerian Wicca in the Protean line.
www.biographybase.com /biography/Adler_Margot.html   (249 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Margot Adler - Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and ...
Adler also gives names and address of Groves, Churches and or Covens that people can contact should they be interested in finding out more information or would like to learn from them.
Ms Adler is very descriptive in her writings on the paths and what is practiced.
Ms Adler has extreme working knowledge of all of the paths during the time of her writing and can help those who feel lost find their way.
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 Yellow Springs Ohio, WYSO PUBLIC RADIO FM 91.3   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Margot Adler is a National Public Radio correspondent based in NPR's New York Bureau.
Many would be tempted to stereotype her as a "product of the 60s," but as with most classifications, the simplicity of the phrase does not allow for the complexity of the person.
Adler also noted changes in some of her core opinions when this new war hit her own backyard – especially in an attack embedded in religious fundamentalism.
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 YES! Magazine Book Reviews: Heretic's Heart: A Journey of Spirit and Revolution by Margot Adler
Adler is New York bureau chief for National Public Radio and an authority on paganism and feminist spirituality.
Drawing upon her journals and personal correspondence, Adler captures the passion and motivation behind her involvement in the many movements of that era: the Berkeley Free Speech movement, the voter registration efforts in Mississippi, the Venceremos Brigade in Cuba, the anti-Vietnam War movement.
Adler writes with considerable skill of this period of history when justice and racial rights were concrete goals — not unreachable ideals — and activism brought lasting change.
www.yesmagazine.org /article.asp?id=932   (638 words)

  
 CPSR - document_view
Ever since reporter Margot Adler had a son (now a ten year old computer gamer), she has been spending some of her reporting time looking at popular kid culture and technology.
Margot Adler is a correspondent for National Public Radio specializing in features that look at the interface between politics and culture.
She is the author of "Drawing Down the Moon," the classic study of Earth-based spirituality and Paganism and "Heretic's Heart", a 1960's memoir.
www.cpsr.org /prevsite/conferences/pdc2000/Margot_Adler.html   (97 words)

  
 Amazing article by Margot Adler...for Pagans and Christians alike. - @forums
We have asked repeatedly that old threads not be bumped, but it seems as if you cannot abide by such a simple request, so we are abiding by the request for you.
For those of you haven't heard of her, Margot Adler is the author of Drawing Down the Moon, one of the most influential books about modern paganism.
Margot Adler, a Beliefnet columnist and the author of 'Drawing Down the Moon' and 'Heretic's Heart,' is an NPR correspondent.
www.atforumz.com /showthread.php?t=11836   (1767 words)

  
 2000: Quick Quotes Quill, the largest archive of J.K. Rowling interviews on the web
ADLER: I keep on being at war with a desperate desire to see the movie...
ADLER: Now you still have at least three years to go to write five, six and seven of the series.
ADLER: And given that Harry Potter was--What?--10 years in the making, are there other projects that are beginning to percolate?
www.quick-quote-quill.org /articles/2000/1000-npr-adler.htm   (987 words)

  
 Adler - Mortimer Adler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Mortimer J. (Jerome) Adler was born in New York City, the son of an immigrant jewelry Adler became an instructor at Columbia University in the1920s.
Adler is the Associate Executive Director of the Association of Research Prior to joining ARL in 1989, Ms.
Adler Pollock and Sheehan PC Adler Pollock and Sheehan is a full-service law firm with lawyers and attorneys available in Providence, Rhode Island, Boston and New Hampshire.
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 Margot Adler   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Margot Adler has come to Rowe for more than 20 years, bringing her unique blend of exuberant ritual, deep intellectual talk, ribald laughter, and irrepressible New York spunk.
By day, Margot Adler is a highly professional National Public Radio Correspondent.
Margot Adler is a Wiccan priestess and elder in the Women's spirituality movement who has spent the last two decades walking in both the sacred and "mundane" worlds.
www.rowecenter.org /schedule/2002/margot.html   (535 words)

  
 TWPT Talks with Margot Adler
Adler specializes in in-depth features -- topics have included the debate over family values, the complexities of the right to die movement and the controversy over affirmative action.
Adler received a bachelor of arts degree in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master's degree from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University New York in 1970.
Adler, we here at the Wiccan/Pagan Times would like to thank you for your participation in our 1st anniversary Author's Corner and we wish you much success in all your future endeavors.
www.twpt.com /adler.htm   (4716 words)

  
 Le Repaire de Rowling : interviews de 1998
Margot Adler : La majorité de Harry Potter à l'Ecole des Sorciers se passe dans un monde alternatif fantasmagorique, dans une école de sorcellerie nommée Poudlard, une arrivée bizarre vers une école anglaise avec internat, sauf que cette école est remplie de géants, et de Professeurs portant le nom de Chourave, Rogue et Dumbledore.
Margot Adler : Rowling dit qu'elle collecte les noms dans de vieux livres et des noms de rues.
Margot Adler : Dans le livre, le monde sorcier et le monde moldu sont totalement distincts.
www.h-potter.com /repaire-rowling/interviews/1998/0312-nprradio.htm   (1364 words)

  
 Powell's Books - Heretic's Heart: A Journey Through Spirit & Revolution by
Adler was a young woman determined to be taken seriously and to be an agent of change - on her own terms, free from dogma and authoritarian constraints.
From campus activism at the University of California at Berkeley to civil-rights work in Mississippi, from antiwar protests to observing the socialist revolution in Cuba, she found those chances in the 1960s.
Adler's memoir marks an initiatory journey from spirit through politics and revolution back to spirit again.
www.powells.com /biblio/1-0807070998-1   (297 words)

  
 CUUPS Convocation 1995 Margot Adler
Margot introduces herself, and apologizes for not attending the whole Convocation.
Margot decided to learn it, and bring it back to the coven, and they can do something.
Because of Margot's experience on the "Remembrances" panel, she is now treated as one of the family.
www.cuups.org /content/events/convo1995.html   (1227 words)

  
 Justice Talking
Justice Talking is hosted by Margot Adler, a National Public Radio correspondent based in NPR's New York Bureau.
Heard regularly on All Things Considered ®, Morning Edition ®, and Weekend edition ®, Adler's thirty years of experience as a radio host and correspondent enable her to explore contemporary issues in an entertaining and insightful manner.
Adler is the author of two books including Heretic's Heart: A Journey Through Spirit & Revolution.
www.justicetalking.org /aboutus.asp   (524 words)

  
 Margot Adler
Margot Adler is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
Adler is a common German name; it means 'eagle.' Adler - Common Adler names.
Gardner claimed that the religion was a survival of matriarchal Pagan religions of pre-historic Europe (see Völva), taught to him by a woman known as "Dafo" or "Old Dorothy" (identified by Doreen Valiente (1984) as Dorothy Clutterbuck, although modern researchers such as Philip Heselton have theorized that Dafo and Clutterbuck were two separate individuals).
www.experiencefestival.com /margot_adler   (2370 words)

  
 NPR : Margot Adler
December 30, 2004 · NPR's Margot Adler reports on the surge in online donations for relief efforts for tsunami victims.
NPR's Margot Adler spoke with Winter as he prepared for the concerts.
November 28, 2004 · NPR's Margot Adler reports on a daylong journey through Manhattan with Eric Utne, the founder of Utne magazine.
www.npr.org /templates/archives/archive.php?thingId=2100166&startNum=3&pageNum=7   (716 words)

  
 Margot Adler on LibraryThing | Catalog your books online
There are 9 conversations about Margot Adler's books.
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 Margot Adler
Margot Adler is the author of Drawing Down the Moon, the classic study of contemporary nature religions, Paganism and Goddess Spirituality.
The book, originally published in 1979, was revised, expanded and updated this fall.
There is an additional municipal lot on Route 28 one block south of Old Town Hall.
www.earthcirclecuups.org /margotadler   (534 words)

  
 Wicca, the religion
The first time I called myself a 'Witch' was the most magical moment of my life." Margot Adler.
Thanks also to Isaac Bonewits (ibonewits@neopagan.net) for permitting us to copy his "family values" graphic.
Margot Adler, "Drawing Down The Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America Today," Penguin Books, (1997), Page.
www.religioustolerance.org /witchcra.htm   (562 words)

  
 Margot Adler - Penguin Books Authors - Penguin Books
Margot Adler - Penguin Books Authors - Penguin Books
Margot Adler has been a radio producer and journalist since 1968, pioneering live, free-form talk shows on religion, politics, women's issues, and ecology.
She lectures on the subject of Paganism and Earth-centered traditions and leads workshops on the art of ritual, celebration, and song.
www.penguin.ca /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000000056,00.html   (101 words)

  
 A Newfound Patriotism -- Margot Adler sees that she's been transformed by 9/11 -- Beliefnet.com
A Newfound Patriotism -- Margot Adler sees that she's been transformed by 9/11 -- Beliefnet.com
Recently, I had one of those experiences that crystallizes inchoate feelings.
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www.beliefnet.com /story/96/story_9615_1.html   (474 words)

  
 CUUPS Resources - Audio Archive
Musicians include Khrysso, Carole Eagleheart, Rev. John Gilmore, Rev. Mary Grigolia and Nancy Vedder-Schults.
A chant workshop with author, witch and NPR reporter, Margot Adler.
Margot Adler, author, witch and NPR reporter, talks about her path as a Pagan and about her book, Heretic's Heart.
www.cuups.org /content/resources/audio.html   (1219 words)

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