Asatru Folk Assembly
Item
- ERE ID
- 10710
- Group name
- Asatru Folk Assembly See all items with this value
- URL of title group
- Runestone.org
- Stated purpose
- The Asatru Folk Assembly is a white supremacist Pagan international Ásatrú organization, founded by Stephen A. McNallen in 1994. Its racist doctrines are based on ethnicity, an approach it calls "folkish"
- Parent organization URL
- Paganism
- Date established
- 1969
- Established by
- Stephen A. McNallen
- AFA in its current form was established in 1994
- Membership
- 800-900
- Location
- Murdock, Minnesota
- Linden, North Carolina
- Brownsville, California
- White Springs, Florida
- Publications about the group
- -Jennifer Snook. (2013). Reconsidering Heathenry: The Construction of an Ethnic Folkway as Religio-ethnic Identity. Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, 16(3), 52–76. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2013.16.3.52
- -Seigfried, K. E. (2021). Children of Heimdall: Ásatrú ideas of ancestry. Radical Transformations in Minority Religions, 39-54.
- FBI: Virginia men arrested on firearms charges plotted to use violence to incite a race war
- Murdock votes to allow whites-only group to use former church
- Fear Spreads in Minnesota Town as ‘Extremist Group’ Moves to Open Church
- Perceived enemies
- "Guerrilla feminism"
- Immigrants
- People of color
- Outsiders, local media: "local media had concerns about the AFA; most of which were due to the false controversy being stirred up by outsiders looking for drama. "
- Key URLs about the group -- not by the group
- https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2013.16.3.52
- Media
AFA
Linked resources
| Title | Class |
|---|---|
| Declaration of Purpose of the Asatru Folk Assembly (2004) | |
| Introduction to Asatru Folk Assembly |