Odinist Fellowship

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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 an unaffiliated British group with the same name.

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

For many years, The Odinist Fellowship published a periodical called The Odinist out of Crystal River, Florida. Since Else died in 2005, her Odinist Fellowship ceased to exist, with much of the membership transferring to the Odinic Rite.[link][link]

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There is also a British-based organisation called the Odinist Fellowship [link], which is unaffiliated with the organization founded by Christensen. The founder of the UK group sought Christensen's permission to use the name Odinist Fellowship but this was denied .

The British-based Odinist Fellowship is registered under English law as a religious charity (reg. charity no.: 298688, the number originally issued to the Odinic Rite, the first polytheistic religious group in the UK to achieve such status). One of its notable achievements was to gain legal recognition for the Odinist religion in the case of Royal Mail PLC v Holden (2006), when a ruling was made to declare that Odinism is to be recognised as a religion for the purposes of anti-discrimination legislation.

The Odinist Fellowship is also planning to establish a nationwide network of Odinist Temples, which will be the first such places of worship in England in modern times.

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