List of modern pagan movements
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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.).
Druidry (modern)
Ancient Order of Druids (1781)
The Druid Order (1909)
Thelema (1904)
Germanic neopaganism/Ariosophy
Germanische Glaubens-Gemeinschaft (1907)
Guido von List Society (1908)
Church of the Universal Bond (1912)
Adonism (1925)
Slavic Native Faith (1920s–30s)
Zadruga (1937)
Church of Aphrodite (1938)
Ethnic and cultural
European Congress of Ethnic Religions
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
Odin Brotherhood
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
Odinist Community of Spain – Ásatrú (1981)
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)
Wotansvolk (1995)
Heathenry in Canada
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
Associazione Tradizionale Pietas
Nova Roma
Roman Traditional Movement
Pietas Comunità Gentile
Hellenic
Hellenism
Baltic
Dievturība (Latvian)
Romuva (Lithuanian)
Slavic
Rodnovery (Native Faith) (1920–30s)
Zadruga (1937)
Rodzima Wiara (1996)
Native Ukrainian National Faith, RUNVira (1964)
Peterburgian Vedism
Union of the Veneds (1986)
Skhoron ezh Sloven (1991)
Slavic-Hill Rodnovery (1980s)
Ynglism (1991)
Native Polish Church (1995)
Union of Slavic Native Belief Communities (1997)
AllatRa (2014)
Rodnover Confederation (2015)
Commonwealth of Pagan Communities of Siberia–Siberian Veche (2015)
Ivanovism (1930s)
Tezaurus Spiritual Union (Authentism) (1984)
Russian Public Movement "Course of Truth and Unity" (Concept of Public 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
Abkhaz neopaganism
Council of Priests of Abkhazia (2012)
Adyghe Habze
Vainakh religion
Other European
Albanian folk believers
Hetanism
Assianism (Ossetian Native Faith)
Zalmoxianism
Turko-Mongolic
Aar Aiyy Faith (Yakut: Аар Айыы итэҕэлэ) (1996)
Aiyy Faith (Yakut: Айыы итэҕэлэ), former Kut-Siur (1990)
Aiyy Tangara Faith (Yakut: Айыы Таҥара итэҕэлэ) (2019)
Burkhanism/Ak Jang (Altay: Ак јаҥ) (1904)
International Fund of Tengri Research (Russian: Международный Фонд Исследования Тенгри) (2011)
Mongolian shamanism/Tengerism (Mongolian: Бөө мөргөл/Тэнгэризм)
Heaven's Dagger
Mongolian Shamans' Association (Golomt Tuv)
Circle of Tengerism (Mongolian shamanic association of America)
Golomt Center for Shamanist Studies
Samgaldai Center (Mongolian: Хаант Тэнгэрийн Самгалдай)
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)
North African
Berber neopaganism
Church of the Guanche People
Punic religion
Semitic
Canaanism
Semitic neopaganism
Kemetic
Kemetism
Kemetic Orthodoxy
Kemetic reform
American
Ausar Auset Society (1973)
Mexicayotl
Native American Church (late 19th century)
Sub-Saharan African
Godianism (1948)
Korean
Dangunism
Wicca
Wicca originated in 1940s Britain (UK) 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 traditions in Britain, Europe and the United States, most of which base their beliefs and practices on Wicca.
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