Stephen Anthony McNallen is an American proponent of Heathenry, a modern Pagan new religious movement, and a white nationalist activist. He founded the Viking Brotherhood in 1969 to 1970, transformed it into the Asatru Free Assembly, and later founded the Asatru Folk Assembly, which he led from 1994 until 2016; he espoused a belief he called metagenetics, holding that Heathenry was suitable only for those of Northern European ancestry, and he is regarded as a controversial figure within the Heathen and wider Pagan community over this stance. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Third of three successive organizations McNallen founded. Independently re-fetched live this session from the raw MediaWiki extracts API as a spot check: "The Asatru Folk Assembly (AFA) is an international Heathen organization based in the United States. It was founded by Stephen A. McNallen in 1994."
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Second of three successive organizations McNallen founded; converted from the Viking Brotherhood in 1976, later closed in 1986.
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First of three successive organizations McNallen founded (Viking Brotherhood, then Asatru Free Assembly, then Asatru Folk Assembly), all documented on one shared Wikipedia page.
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Moving to Northern California, McNallen began a career as a school teacher; during the summer vacations he travelled the world as a military journalist, writing articles for Soldier of Fortune magazine.
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1. Stephen McNallen, Structured Record (Wikidata Q779548)
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is an American proponent of Heathenry, a modern Pagan new religious movement, and a white nationalist activist. He founded the Asatru Folk Assembly (AFA), which he led from 1994 until 2016, having previously been the founder of the Viking Brotherhood and the Asatrú Free Assembly.
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(born October 15, 1948)
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Stephen Anthony McNallen (born October 15, 1948) is an American proponent of Heathenry, a modern Pagan new religious movement, and a white nationalist activist.
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Wikimedia FoundationTraditions Founded: Viking Brotherhood, Lead section, paragraph on the group's history
McNallen formed the Viking Brotherhood in Texas at the start of the 1970s.
Traditions Founded: Asatru Free Assembly, Lead section, paragraph on the group's history
In 1976, when he had relocated to California, he converted it into the Asatru Free Assembly, which was the first national Heathen organisation in the United States.
Traditions Founded: Asatru Folk Assembly, Lead section
The Asatru Folk Assembly (AFA) is an international Heathen organization based in the United States, founded by Stephen A. McNallen in 1994 after he had closed his earlier Asatru Free Assembly in 1986.
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