title: Gods of the Blood: The Pagan Revival and White Separatism
author:  Mattias Gardell 
description: Nazi skinheads and other groups proclaiming white supremacy represent a disturbing and frightening challenge to those advocating toleration and equality for all races. Historian of religion Gardell (In the Name of Elijah Muhammad) draws on interviews with white supremacist leaders to provide a startling and revealing view of many of these groups and their religious motivations. He contends that the increasing multiculturalism in the United States has led these groups to seek a racial purity that can be found only in pagan cultures. According to Gardell, individuals in these groups become religious racists when they claim that the Divine created the elements of an ancient, pure race. Gardell shows that pagan Nordic culture provides white supremacists with a model of legendary times in which the Aryan race was uncontaminated by the evils of modern global society. Thus, groups such as Wodan's Kindred, the Odinist Fellowship and the Church of Jesus Christ, Christian/Aryan Nations, see themselves as heroes whose task is to restore the lost purity of this bygone era. Gardell argues that members of these groups cannot be dismissed as hopeless dreamers; he calls them "romantic men armed with guns and determination" who have been throughout history a "dangerous species." Although Gardell's academic tone and sometimes torturous prose make for slow reading, his well-researched book offers never-before-seen glimpses of the visions and goals of racist pagans. <br />Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  ### The Roots of Honour
  
  
  Among the delusions which at different periods have possessed
  
  
  themselves of the minds of large masses of the human race, perhaps the
  
  
  most curious —certainly the least creditable —is the modern
  
  
  soi-disant science of political economy, based on the idea that an
  
  
  advantageous code of social action may be determined irrespectively o