List of Neopagan movements

Neopaganism (also "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 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.).

• Neo-druidism
  • The Druid Order (1717)
  • Ancient Order of Druids (1781)
• 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

Main articles: Wicca and Contemporary witchcraft

See also: Category: Wiccan traditions

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.

• 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
• Feri Tradition
• Children of Artemis

New Age, eclectic or syncretic

• Reclaiming
• Feraferia
• Church of All Worlds
• Church of Aphrodite
• Christian Wicca

Ethnic

Further information: Polytheistic reconstructionism

• European Congress of Ethnic Religions

Ancient West Asia and North Africa

• Semitic neopaganism
• Kemetism (Egyptian neopaganism)
  • Ausar Auset Society
  • Kemetic Orthodoxy

Germanic

Winternights sacrifice at Öskjuhlíð, in Reykjavík.

Main articles: Germanic neopaganism and Heathenry (new religious movement)

Further information: Forn Siðr and Ásatrú

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.

• Anglosphere / North America
  • American Asatru
    • Asatru Free Assembly (Stephen McNallen, 1974–1986)
    • Ring of Troth (1987)
    • Asatru Folk Assembly (1996)
  • Odinism
    • Odinist Fellowship (US) (Else Christensen, 1971–2005)
    • Odinic Rite (1973)
    • Odinist Fellowship (UK) (1988)
  • International Asatru-Odinic Alliance (1997–2002)
  • Theodism (American tribalist movements)
• Scandinavia
  • Íslenska Ásatrúarfélagið (1972)
  • Foreningen Forn Sed (1999)
  • Samfälligheten för Nordisk Sed (1999)
  • Swedish Asatru Assembly (1994)
  • Åsatrufellesskapet Bifrost (1996)
• German-speaking Europe
  • Eldaring (2000)
• Germanic mysticism (Armanism or Irminism/Irminenschaft/Ariosophy and Nordic racial paganism
  • Heidnische Gemeinschaft (1985)
  • Artgemeinschaft (1951)
  • Deutsche Heidnische Front (1998)
  • New Armanen-Orden
  • Odin Brotherhood
  • Wotanism

Celtic

Main article: Celtic Neopaganism

• Celtic Reconstructionism (1980s)
• Neo-druidism or Neodruidry, or druidism or druidry
  • Reformed Druids of North America (1963)
  • Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids (1964)
  • Monastic Order of Avallon (1970)
  • Ár nDraíocht Féin (1983)

Italic

• Roman Way to the Gods or Religio Romana
  • Nova Roma

Other European

Ritual at the Temple of Garni, in Armenia.

• Abkhaz Neopaganism
  • Council of Priests of Abkhazia (2012)
• Armenian Neopaganism (Hetanism)
• Baltic Neopaganism
  • Latvian Neopaganism (Dievturity)
  • Lithuanian Neopaganism (Romuva)
• Canarian Neopaganism (Church of the Guanche People; Guanche religion)
• Estonian Neopaganism (Taaraism and Maausk)
  • Maavalla Koda
• Finnish Neopaganism (Suomenism)
• Hellenic Neopaganism (Hellenism)
  • Supreme Council of Ethnikoi Hellenes (est. 1997)
  • Hellenion (est. 2002)
• Roman Way to the Gods or Religio Romana
  • Nova Roma
• Slavic Neopaganism (Rodnovery)
  • RUNVira, Sylenkoism (est. 1966)
  • Native Polish Church (est. 1995)
  • Native Faith Association of Ukraine (est. 1998)
• Zalmoxianism (or Zamolxianism)

Ancient Near East

• Semitic Neopaganism
  • Jewish Neopaganism
  • Jewitchery (Jewish-Wiccan syncretism)
• Kemetism (Egyptian Neopaganism)
  • Ausar Auset, "Black" Kemetism or Neterianism (1973)
  • Kemetic Orthodoxy (1988)
  • Church of the Eternal Source (1970)

Other

• Mexicayotl (Mexico)

See also

• List of Pagans

External links

• BBC Paganism Portal