1. Phillip Emmons Isaac Bonewits was an American Neo-Druid who wrote a number of books on the subject of Neopaganism and magic.
19 Facts About Isaac Bonewits
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Isaac Bonewits was born on October 1,1949, in Royal Oak, Michigan, as the fourth of five children.
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Isaac Bonewits's father was a Presbyterian while his mother a Catholic.
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Isaac Bonewits enrolled at UC Berkeley in 1966 and graduated in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts in magic, perhaps becoming the first and only person known to have ever received any kind of academic degree in magic from an accredited university.
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In 1966, while enrolled at UC Berkeley, Isaac Bonewits joined the Reformed Druids of North America.
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Between 1973 and 1975 Isaac Bonewits was employed as the editor of Gnostica magazine in Minnesota.
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Isaac Bonewits established an offshoot group of the Reformed Druids of North America called the Schismatic Druids of North America, and helped create a group called the Hasidic Druids of North America.
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Isaac Bonewits founded the short-lived Aquarian Anti-Defamation League, an early Pagan civil rights group.
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In 1976, Isaac Bonewits moved back to Berkeley and rejoined his original grove there, now part of the New Reformed Druids of North America.
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Isaac Bonewits was later elected Archdruid of the Berkeley Grove.
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Isaac Bonewits was a regular presenter at Neopagan conferences and festivals all over the US, as well as attending gaming conventions in the Bay Area.
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In 1983, Isaac Bonewits founded Ar nDraiocht Fein, which was incorporated in 1990 in the state of Delaware as a US 5013 non-profit organization.
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Isaac Bonewits lived in Rockland County, New York, and was a member of the Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans.
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Isaac Bonewits encouraged charity programs to help Neopagan seniors, and in January 2006 was the keynote speaker at the Conference On Current Pagan Studies at the Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, CA.
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Isaac Bonewits was married to Rusty Elliot from 1973 to 1976.
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On October 25,2009, Isaac Bonewits was diagnosed with a rare form of colon cancer, for which he underwent treatment.
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Isaac Bonewits died at home, on August 12,2010, surrounded by his family.
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In light of this accusation, ADF, the lead pagan organization that Issac Isaac Bonewits founded, removed his name from their website and repudiated him.
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Isaac Bonewits coined much of the modern terminology used to articulate the themes and issues that affect the North American Neopagan community.