Contemporary Paganism

Odin worshippers in prison lose right to meet after one member caught with Nazi propaganda.

Inmates in state prisons have a new choice to practice their religious convictions: Paganism.The Appalachian Pagan Ministry, a small volunteer group based in Huntington, West Virginia, has held services at two Ohio prisons and plans to expand to three others.The Rev. Donna Donovan, ordained as a Druid priestess and an interfaith minister through Universal Life Church, is the leader of the group working with inmates she describes as "pan pagan," referring to religious that are "non-Abrahamaic,"