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The
Asatru Alliance (AA) is a US American
Ásatrú group, succeeding
Stephen McNallen's
Asatru Free Assembly (AFA) in 1987, founded by Michael J. Murray (a.k.a. Valgard Murray) of
Arizona, a former member of the
American Nazi Party and former vice-president of
Else Christensen's
Odinist Fellowship. The AFA seceded into two groups, the other one being
The Troth. The AA represented the "traditionalist" or "folkish" faction, while The Troth represented "several new directions" of syncretism or tribalism. The Troth took an overtly anti-racist stance, the Asatru Alliance, characterized by critics as
racialist and dominated by former AFA members, was for the most part a reconstituted AFA, dominated by prior AFA members, and acted as the distributor of AFA publications.
The AA drew up bylaws to address the "racism" issue stating that "the Alliance is apolitical". In spite of this,
Vor trú repeatedly endorsed the German Neo-Nazi
Artgemeinschaft.
McNallen's group was revived (as
Asatru Folk Assembly, AFA) in 1994, and the two organizations have existed in parallel since, temporarily united within the
International Asatru-Odinic Alliance (1997-2002).
The AA as the AFA advocates "
folkish"
Germanic Neopaganism, defining Ásatrú as "the ethnic religion of the Northern European peoples". The AA remained significantly smaller and more marginal than The Troth, because of "an insular organizational mentality and a tolerance for a large and vocal racist contingent".
The AA is headed by, publisher of the "Vor Tru" newsletter. The
Ásatrú Alliance held its 25th annual "
Althing" gathering in 2005. Kaplan (1996) estimates the AA has between 500 and 1,000 members.
Robert N. Taylor's
Northway group, founded in 1976, similarly split in a Wiccan and an Asatrú faction, the latter developed into the
Wulfing Kindred which joined the AA, but left again in 1999. Unlike other "kindreds", the
Wulfings only take what they consider the "talented" as members, such as
Michael Moynihan of
Blood Axis, Robert Ward (editor of
The Fifth Path) and Markus Wolff of
Crash Worship and editor of
Minotaurus.
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