List of modern pagan movements explained

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)

Ethnic and cultural

• European Congress of Ethnic Religions

Germanic

See main article: Heathenry (new religious movement). 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

See main article: Celtic neopaganism.

• 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
  • Assocaizione Tradizionale Pietas^[1]
  • Nova Roma
  • Roman Traditional Movement

Hellenic

• Hellenism

Iranic

• Yazdânism
• Yazidism
• Yarsanism

Baltic

See main article: Baltic neopaganism.

• Dievturība (Latvian)
• Lithuanian neopaganism (Romuva)

Slavic

See main article: Slavic Native Faith and List of Slavic Native Faith's organisations.

• Rodnovery (Native Faith) (1920–30s)
  • Zadruga (1937)
    • Rodzima Wiara (1996)
  • Native Ukrainian National Faith, RUNVira (1964)
  • Peterburgian Vedism
    • Union of the Veneds (1986)^[2]
    • Skhoron ezh Sloven (1991)
  • 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)
• 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

See main article: Uralic neopaganism.

• Estonian neopaganism (Taaraism and Maausk)
  • Maavalla Koda (1995)
• Finnish neopaganism
• Hungarian neopaganism
• Mari native religion
• Mordvin native religion
• Udmurt Vos

Caucasian

See main article: Caucasian neopaganism.

• 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

See main article: Tengrism and List of Tengrist movements.

• Aar Aiyy Faith (Yakut: Аар Айыы итэҕэлэ) (1996)^[3]
• Aiyy Faith (Yakut: Айыы итэҕэлэ), former Kut-Siur (1990)
• Aiyy Tangara Faith (Yakut: Айыы Таҥара итэҕэлэ) (2019)^[4]
• Burkhanism/Ak Jang (Southern Altai: Ак јаҥ) (1904)
• International Fund of Tengri Research (Russian: Международный Фонд Исследования Тенгри) (2011)
• Mongolian shamanism/Tengerism (Mongolian: Бөө мөргөл/Тэнгэризм)
  • Heaven's Dagger^[5]
  • Mongolian Shamans' Association (Golomt Tuv)^[6]
    • Circle of Tengerism (Mongolian shamanic association of America)
    • Golomt Center for Shamanist Studies
  • Samgaldai Center (Mongolian: Хаант Тэнгэрийн Самгалдай|r=|p=)
• Tengir Ordo (Kirghiz; 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)

Canarian

• Church of the Guanche People

Semitic

• Canaanism
• Semitic neopaganism

Kemetic

• Kemetism
  • Kemetic Orthodoxy

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. Many movements are influenced by the Movement of the Goddess, and New Age and feminist worldviews.

• 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)
  • Coven of the Far Flung Net (1998)

Other Wiccan-related traditions

• Stregheria (Italian tradition)
• Hedge Witchcraft
• Cochrane's Craft
  • 1734 Tradition
• Children of Artemis
• Feri Tradition
• Reclaiming

Eclectic or syncretic

See main article: Eclectic paganism.

• Antinous
• Church of All Worlds
• Church of Aphrodite
• Christopaganism
• Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans (1985)
• Feraferia
• Goddess movement
• Huna
• Neoshamanism
• Pagan Federation
• Radical Faeries (1979)
• Secular paganism
• Universal Pantheist Society

See also

• List of modern pagan temples
• List of pagans

External links

• BBC Paganism Portal

Notes and References

1. https://tradizioneromana.org/
2. Book: Aitamurto . Kaarina . 2016 . Paganism, Traditionalism, Nationalism: Narratives of Russian Rodnoverie . London; New York . Routledge . 35–37 . 9781472460271.
3. Book: Popov. Igor. Тюрко-монгольские религии (тенгрианство). Turko-Mongolic Religions (Tengrism). Справочник всех религиозных течений и объединений в России. The Reference Book on All Religious Branches and Communities in Russia. http://www.russiafaiths.blogspot.com/p/turkic-mongolic-tengrism.html . 2016. ru. November 23, 2019.
4. Web site: First Tengrian religious organization registered. International Fund of Tengri Research. April 22, 2019. November 23, 2019. ru.
5. Balogh. Matyas. Contemporary shamanisms in Mongolia. Asian Ethnicity. 2010. 11. 2. 229–38. 10.1080/14631361003779489. 145595446.
6. Schlehe. Judith . Rasuly-Paleczek. Gabriele . Shamanism in Mongolia and in New Age Movements . Central Asia on Display: Proceedings of the VIIth Conference of the European Society for Central Asian Studies . Vienna. Lit Verlag . 2004 . 1 . 283–96 . 3-8258-8309-4 .