Editing Drawing Down the Moon (book) (section)

==Republication==

===1986 revision===
In 1986, Adler published a revised second edition of ''Drawing Down the Moon'', much expanded with new information. Identifying several new trends that had occurred in American Paganism since 1979, Adler recognized that in the intervening seven years, U.S. Pagans had become increasingly self-aware of Paganism as a movement, something which she attributed to the increasing number of Pagan festivals.<ref name="Pike 1996 363"/>
One reviewer noted that the alterations made for the 1986 edition "often creates a vivid contrast with events and persons first described in 1979."<ref name="Herndobler 1987">[[#Her87|Herndobler 1987]].</ref>

===1996 revision===
In the 1996 third edition, Adler added over 150 pages of new material to reflect seven years of growth and change in the Pagan movement:

* '''Expanded tradition profiles''': New sections on GreenCraft, Afro‑Diasporic Paganisms, and the rise of online Pagan networking.  
* '''Interfaith engagement''': A chapter on Pagan representation at world religious conferences, documenting the formation of the Council of Interfaith Communities .<ref name="Interfaith1996">{{cite book |last=Orion |first=Loretta |title=Never Again the Burning Times: Paganism Revisited |publisher=Waveland Press |year=1995 |pages=130–135 |isbn=978-0-88133-835-5}}</ref>  
* '''Demographic data''': Inclusion of the first mailed survey results estimating U.S. Pagan population at 150,000–250,000, from a 1994 National Census of Pagan Religions conducted by the Association of Round Table Pagans .<ref name="Census1994">{{cite web |last=Adler |first=Margot |title=National Census of Pagan Religions |url=https://web.archive.org/web/19971005000000*/http://pagan.org/census/ |access-date=2025-05-06}}</ref>  
* '''Reflections on growth challenges''': Discussion of organizational fragmentation, commercialization of Witchcraft paraphernalia, and debates over political activism within Pagan circles .<ref name="Lloyd2012">{{cite book |last=Lloyd |first=Michael G. |title=Bull of Heaven |publisher=Asphodel Press |year=2012 |page=235 |isbn=978-1938197048}}</ref>

These additions cemented the book’s status as the definitive sociological survey of American Paganism in the late 20th century

===2006 revision===
The 2006 edition includes a new section on Greencraft (pp.&nbsp;127–129), a Wiccan tradition emerging out of an [[Alexandrian Wicca]] [[coven]], which features its own [[rune]] alphabet and a non-[[Hebrew]] form of [[Kabbalah]] based on work by Neopagan author [[R. J. Stewart]]; it emphasizes the practice of Wicca as a nature religion and as a [[mystery religion]]. It also gives a more complete and sympathetic treatment of the Northern European Neopagan revivals grouped under the rubric "[[Heathenry (new religious movement)|Heathenism]]," which she admits to having consciously omitted from the first edition because of discomfort with the more conservative social values of this form of Pagan revival, and because some far-right and even [[neo-Nazi]] groups were using it as a front for their activities at the time (pp.&nbsp;286–296). And she prefaces her chapter "Women, Feminism, and the Craft," which discusses the emergence of [[feminist Wicca|feminist forms of Neopaganism]], with discussion of how her personal feelings about such groups have changed, but "decided to leave the chapter pretty much as is, with a few minor corrections, and address the question of feminist spirituality today at the end."