Editing Modern paganism (section)

====United States====
Based upon her work in the United States, Adler found that the pagan movement was "very diverse" in its class and ethnic backgrounds.{{Sfn|Adler|2006|p=19}} She went on to remark that she had encountered pagans in jobs that ranged from "fireman to PhD chemist" but that the one thing she thought made them into an "elite" was being avid readers, something that she found to be very common within the pagan community despite the fact that avid readers constituted less than 20% of the general population of the United States at the time.{{Sfn|Adler|2006|p=34}} Magliocco came to a somewhat different conclusion based upon her ethnographic research of pagans in California, remarking that the majority were "white, middle-class, well-educated urbanites" but that they were united in finding "artistic inspiration" within "folk and indigenous [American] spiritual traditions,"{{Sfn|Magliocco|2004|p=7}}

The sociologist Regina Oboler examined the role of gender in the American pagan community, arguing that although the movement had been constant in its support for the equality of men and women ever since its foundation, there was still an [[essentialism|essentialist]] view of gender ingrained within it, with female deities being accorded traditional western feminine traits and male deities being similarly accorded what western society saw as masculine traits.{{Sfn|Oboler|2010|pp=182–183}}