| Nordic Asa-Community | |
| Native Name: | Nordiska Asa-samfundet |
| Abbreviation: | NAS |
| Type: | Religious organisation |
| Purpose: | Germanic religion |
| Headquarters: | Finspång, Sweden |
| Membership: | 2000 (2024) |
| Language: | Swedish |
| Leader Title: | Chairman |
| Leader Name: | Håkan Ljunggren |
| Key People: | Thommy Vähäsalo (Swedish: riksblotsansvarig) |
| Website: | https://asa-samfundet.se/ |
The Nordic Asa-Community (Swedish: 'Nordiska Asa-samfundet; abbreviated NAS) is a Germanic heathen religious organisation founded in Sweden in 2014. Since 2016, it has been the largest heathen organisation in the country.
The Nordic Asa-Community (NAS) was founded in Sweden in 2014.[1] [2] It was officially recognised and registered by the government of Sweden in February 2016. Since then its membership has increased rapidly, growing from 60 members to 550 in November 2016, making it the largest heathen organisation in the country.[3] As of June 2018, it had 1100 registered members,[4] by 2021 it had around 1500 members[5] and by 2024 around 2000 members.[6]
NAS has the aims to make Swedish: asatro—Old Norse religion—an official religion, gathering all Swedish heathens in one body and re-embedding uprooted Swedes into their native historic-cultural tradition.[3] It asserts independence from political parties and ideologies, and forbids all political symbols at its activities, but members can have any political engagements outside the organisation.[7] This distinguishes NAS from the older Swedish Forn Sed Assembly, which has put effort into making political statements against xenophobia.[8]
The chairman is Håkan Ljunggren.[9] The national manager of blóts (Swedish: riksblotsansvarig) is Thommy Vähäsalo.