 Amos Yong grouped the book with recent scholarship by Michael Barkun and Jeffrey Kaplan.With its more narrow focus on the pagan white separatist landscape, Yong described it as "a well-written report and analysis of this phenomenon".Stefanie von Schnurbein wrote that the combination of racialist ideology and neopaganism had been "sadly understudied" by scholars, and that ""Gods of the Blood" is an important and innovative contribution to filling this void".