Odinist Fellowship

Odinist Fellowship

The Odinist Fellowship was the name of an early Odinist organization, founded by Else Christensen and her husband Alex Christensen in Canada in 1969. There is also a British group called the Odinist Fellowship, which has recognition as a registered charity in the UK.

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USA

Initially called the Odinist Study Group, Christensen's group was renamed the Odinist Fellowship in approximately 1971, around the time of Alex's death. Else's relocation to Florida, USA. came in the 1980's.

For many years, The Odinist Fellowship published a periodical called The Odinist out of Canada and Crystal River, Florida. Additionally, her travels included friendly contact with other groups, such as the large Arizona Kindred (where she met up with the Kindred's "Norsemen of Midgard" motorcycle club) and the Steve McNallen's "Asatru Folk Assembly." Since Else died in 2005, her Odinist Fellowship dissolved, with much of the membership transferring to the Odinic Rite.[1] The last known chapter of the US Odinist Fellowship is based in Florida, and is called the Kindred Folk.

UK

The British-based Odinist Fellowship was established by Ralph Harrison in 1988[2] and is unaffiliated with the US organization founded by Christensen. The British Odinist Fellowship is registered under English law as a religious charity.

A notable achievement of the British Odinist Fellowship was to gain legal recognition for the Odinist religion in the case of "Holden v Royal Mail PLC(2006)", when a ruling was made to declare that Odinism is to be recognized as a religion for the purposes of anti-discrimination legislation.

According to its website, the Odinist Fellowship is planning to "institute a network of [Odinist] temples in every [British] county, and in every major town and city up and down the land".

See also

  • Else Christensen
  • Odinic Rite
  • An Interview With Else Christensen by Thor Sannhet [William B. Fox]. Please refer to tinyurl.com/ckqoa8 at the AmericaFirstBooks.com Religious Crisis Web Page. (The former Wikipedia link to this article from Vor Tru issue #49, 1993, reprinted in issue #71, 2005 no longer works).

References

  1. ^ Notice concerning the Odinic Rite absorbing the US Odinist Fellowship after Christensen's retirement
  2. ^ Charity Registration for the UK Odinist Fellowship

External links

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