List of modern pagan movements
Modern paganism, also known as "contemporary" or "neopagan", encompasses a wide range of religious groups and individuals. These may include old occult groups, those that follow a New Age approach, those that try to reconstruct old ethnic religions, and followers of the pagan religion or Wicca.
Early movements
Pre-World War II neopagan or proto-neopagan groups, growing out of occultism and/or Romanticism (Mediterranean revival, Viking revival, Celtic revival, etc.).
- Neo-druidism
- Ancient Order of Druids (1781)
- The Druid Order (1909)
- Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (1888)
- Crowleyan Thelema (1904)
- Germanic neopaganism/Armanism
- Germanische Glaubens-Gemeinschaft (1907)
- Guido von List Society (1908)
- Church of the Universal Bond (1912)
- Adonism (1925)
Witchcraft
Wicca originated in 1940s Britain and became the mainstream of neopaganism in the United States in the 1970s. There are two core traditions of Wicca which originated in Britain, Gardnerian and Alexandrian, which are sometimes referred to as British Traditional Wicca. From these two arose several other variant traditions. Wicca has also inspired a great number of other witchcraft traditions in Britain, Europe and the United States, most of which base their beliefs and practices on Wicca. Many movements are influenced by the Movement of the Goddess, and New Age and feminist worldviews.
Wicca
- British Traditional Wicca
- Gardnerian Wicca (1954)
- Alexandrian Wicca (1967)
- Central Valley Wicca (1969)
- Algard Wicca (1972)
- Chthonioi Alexandrian Wicca (1974)
- Blue Star Wicca (1975)
- Eclectic Wicca and Inclusive Wicca
- Celtic Wicca
- Saxon Wicca
- Dianic Wicca
- McFarland Dianic Wicca
- Faery Wicca
- Georgian Wicca
- Odyssean Wicca
- Wiccan church
- New Reformed Orthodox Order of the Golden Dawn (1968)
- Church and School of Wicca (1968)
- Circle Sanctuary (1974)
- Covenant of the Goddess (1975)
- Aquarian Tabernacle Church (1979)
- Rowan Tree Church (1979)
- Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans (1985)
- Coven of the Far Flung Net (1998)
Other
- Stregheria (Italian tradition)
- Hedge Witchcraft
- Cochrane's Craft
- Children of Artemis
- Feri Tradition
- Reclaiming
New Age, eclectic or syncretic
- Antinous
- Church of All Worlds
- Church of Aphrodite
- Christian Wicca
- Feraferia
- Goddess movement
- Huna
- Neoshamanism
- Pagan Federation
- Radical Faeries
- Universal Pantheist Society
Ethnic
Germanic
Heathenism (also Heathenry, or Greater Heathenry), is a blanket term for the whole Germanic neopagan movement. Various currents and denominations have arisen over the years within it. Some of these denominations follow white supremacy, and some of the groups listed here follow folkish ideology.
- Europe
- Scandinavia
- Íslenska Ásatrúarfélagið (1972)
- Samfundet Forn Sed Sverige (1994)
- Åsatrufellesskapet Bifrost (1996)
- Forn Sed Norge (1998)
- Samfälligheten för Nordisk Sed (1999)
- United Kingdom
- Odinic Rite (1973)
- Odinist Fellowship (United Kingdom) (1988)
- Asatru UK (2013)
- German-speaking Europe
- Artgemeinschaft (1951)
- Heidnische Gemeinschaft (1985)
- Deutsche Heidnische Front (1998)
- Eldaring (2000)
- Latin-speaking Europe
- Russian-speaking world
- Scandinavia
- North America
- Heathenry in the United States
- Asatru Free Assembly (Stephen McNallen, 1974–1986)
- Ásatrú Alliance (1987)
- Ring of Troth (1987)
- Asatru Folk Assembly (1996)
- Odinist Fellowship (United States) (Else Christensen, 1971–2005)
- Odinic Rite (1973)
- Ásatrú Alliance (1987)
- Odin Brotherhood
- Wotansvolk
- Heathenry in Canada
- Heathenry in the United States
Celtic
- Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism (1980s)
- Neo-druidism or neodruidry, or druidism or druidry
- Dynion Mwyn (1950s/60s)
- Reformed Druids of North America (1963)
- Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids (1964)
- Monastic Order of Avallon (1970)
- Ár nDraíocht Féin (1983)
Italic
- Italo-Roman neopaganism or Religio Romana
Baltic
- Dievturība (Latvian)
- Community of Latvian Dievturi (1926–early 1930s)
- Congregation of Latvian Dievturi (1927–1940)
- Latvian Church Dievturi (1971)
- Congregation of Latvian Dievturi (1990)
- Lithuanian neopaganism (Romuva)
Slavic
- Rodnovery (Native Faith) (1920–30s)
- Zadruga (1937)
- Rodzima Wiara (1996)
- Native Ukrainian National Faith, RUNVira (1964)
- Peterburgian Vedism
- Slavic-Hill Rodnovery (1980s)
- Ynglism (1991)
- Native Polish Church (1995)
- Union of Slavic Native Belief Communities (1997)
- Rodnover Confederation (2015)
- Commonwealth of Pagan Communities of Siberia–Siberian Veche (2015)
- Zadruga (1937)
- Ivanovism (1930s)
- Tezaurus Spiritual Union (Authentism) (1984)
- Russian national movement–Course of Truth and Unity (Conception of Social Security–Dead Water) (1985)
- Bazhovism (1992)
- Kandybaism or Russian Religion (1992)
- Ringing Cedars' Anastasianism (1997)
- Levashovism or Russian Public Movement of Renaissance–Golden Age (2007)
Uralic
- Estonian neopaganism (Taaraism and Maausk)
- Maavalla Koda (1995)
- Finnish neopaganism
- Hungarian neopaganism
- Mari native religion
- Mordvin native religion
- Udmurt Vos
Caucasian
Other European
- Armenian Native Faith (Hetanism)
- Assianism (Ossetian Native Faith)
- Hellenism (revival of Ancient Greek religion)
- Zalmoxianism
Turko-Mongolic
- Aar Aiyy Faith (Yakut: Аар Айыы итэҕэлэ) (1996)[2]
- Aiyy Faith (Yakut: Айыы итэҕэлэ), former Kut-Siur (1990)[2]
- Aiyy Tangara Faith (Yakut: Айыы Таҥара итэҕэлэ) (2019)[3]
- Burkhanism/Ak Jang (Altay: Ак јаҥ) (1904)
- International Fund of Tengri Research (Russian: Международный Фонд Исследования Тенгри) (2011)[2]
- Mongolian shamanism/Tengerism (Mongolian: Бөө мөргөл/Тэнгэризм)
- Tengir Ordo (Kyrgyz: Теңир Ордо) (2005)
- Vattisen Yaly (Chuvash: Ваттисен йӑли)
- Chuvash National Congress (Chuvash: Чӑваш наци конгресӗ) (1989–1992)
- Chuvash Traditional Faith Organization "Tura" (Russian: Организация традиционной веры чувашей "Тура") (1995)[2]
Canarian
Semitic
Kemetic
American
- Ausar Auset Society (1973)
- Mexicayotl
- Native American Church (late 19th century)
African
- Godianism (1948)
See also
References
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