Wyatt Kaldenberg
Wyatt Kaldenberg | |
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Born | Wyatt Kaldenberg 1957 (age 66–67) California, United States |
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Author |
Years active | 1978–present |
Wyatt C. Kaldenberg (born 1957) is an American
Early life
Kaldenberg was born in a working-class Mormon family in a small California town in the
Enrolling in a Job Corps training programme in Salt Lake City in the 1970s, Kaldenberg became "aware of racial realities" after having fights with blacks and Muslims.[1]
White Aryan Resistance
In the early 1970s Kaldenberg joined Tom Metzger's White Aryan Resistance. He was the managing editor of their paper WAR[1]: 178 until 1989[2] and Metzger's bodyguard.[3]
SPLC lawsuit
In October 1990, the
Odinism
Kaldenberg was briefly involved with
After leaving the AFA, Kaldenberg developed a distinct variety of Odinism. He devalues spirituality and ceremony and rejects Judeo-Christianity. According to Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, Kaldenberg's version of the ideology is "chiefly a cult of aristocracy, power and the propagation of the white race."[5]
Kaldenberg began publishing Pagan Review in the 1990s which was described as "a voice of Eurocentric polytheistic communities."[5]
Written works
- Odinism: The Religion of Our Germanic Ancestors in the Modern World (2011)
- Odinism in the Age of Man: The Dark Age Before the Return of Our Gods (2011)
- Perceived Heathenism and Odinic Prayer: A Book of Heathen Prayer and Direct Contact with Our Living Gods (2011)
- Folkish Odinism (2013)
- Why Nazism and White Racism Suck And Do Nothing But Empower Leftists And Hurt The White Race (2011)
- A Heathen Family Devotional: Odinism Begins at Home (2011)
- Heathen Family Prayer for Beginners: A Collection of Odinic Prayers for Families New to Odinism, Volume 1 (2011)
- Odinism: Inside the Belly of the Beast: Essays on Heathenism inside The New World Order (2011)
- Skertru Now: Issue 2, April 2013, Volume 2 (2013), with Skergard, Volundr Lars Agnarsson, and Skuli Magnusson
- The Oera Linda Book: A Neo-Pagan Fantasy Novel (Introduction)
- Early Writings that Helped Shape American Odinism, Volume 1 (2012), with other writers
- 9 Worlds of Hex Magic paperback by Hunter Yoder (featured interview)
- The Death of the White Race
Further reading
- Dobratz, Betty A., Stephanie L. Shanks-Meile, The White Separatist Movement in the United States: "White Power, White Pride!", The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000
- Gardell, Mattias, Gods of the Blood: The Pagan Revival and White Separatism, Duke University Press, 2003
References
- ^ a b c Gods of the Blood: The Pagan Revival and White Separatism, By Mattias Gardell, page 177
- ^ a b "Assets of White Supremacist Are Target of Legal Maneuver". New York Times. December 25, 1990. p. 8.
- ISBN 978-1-59942-923-6.
- ^ John Snell (February 2, 1991). "Metzger Aide Jailed for Contempt After Taking Funds from Account". The Oregonian. p. B02.
- ^ a b c d Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity, By Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke. pp. 262-4