List of Neopagan movements

Ukrainian temple of the RUNVira in Spring Glen, New York.

Neopaganism (also modern paganism or contemporary paganism) 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 of Wicca. For organizations, the founding year is given in brackets.

Early movements

Neo-druids celebrating at Stonehenge.

Pre-World War II neopagan or proto-neopagan groups, growing out of occultism and/or Romanticism (Mediterranean revival, Viking revival, Celtic revival, etc.).

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

A Wiccan ritual altar.

Other

New Age, eclectic or syncretic

Ethnic

Germanic

Winternights sacrifice at Öskjuhlíð, in Reykjavík.

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.

Celtic

The Druid Order Ceremony at Tower Hill, London on the Spring Equinox of 2010

Italic

Slavic

The community of the Union of Slavic Native Belief Communities celebrating Mokosh, Russia.

Other European

Ritual at the Temple of Garni, in Armenia.
Members of the Lithuanian Romuva perform a ceremony in front of the Monument of Gediminas, in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Turkic-Mongolic

Tengrist temple of the Sülde Tngri in the town of Uxin Banner in Inner Mongolia, China.

Canarian

Semitic

Kemetic

Mesopotamian

  • Temple of Sumer[1]
  • Gateways to Babylon[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Temple of Sumer
  2. ↑ Gateways to Babylon
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