List of Neopagan movements

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This is a list of Neopagan movements and organizations. Neopaganism is a wide ranging group, including old occult groups, those that follow an eclectic/New Age approach, those that try to reconstruct old polytheistic faiths and followers of Wicca. For organizations, the founding year is given in brackets.

Early movements

Pre-World War II Neopagan or Proto-Neopagan groups, growing out of occultism and/or Romanticism (Viking revival, Celtic revival).

• The Druid Order (1717)
• Ancient Order of Druids (1781)
• Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (1888)
• Germanic mysticism
• Germanische Glaubens-Gemeinschaft (1907)
• Guido von List Society (1908)
• Church of the Universal Bond (1912)
• Crowleyan Thelema (1930s)

Eclectic/New Age

Post-WWII movements emerging in the 1950s to 1960s, and later eclectic or New Age movements out of the Wiccan mainsteam.

• Feri Tradition (1950s)
• Feraferia (1957)
• Church of All Worlds (1962)
• Neo-druidism (1960s; members of most Neo-druidic groups practice eclectic spirituality)
• Reformed Druids of North America (1963)
• Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids (1964)
• British Druid Order (1979)
• Federation of Damanhur (1975)
• Radical Faeries (1979)
• Reclaiming (Neopaganism) (1980)
• Arician Tradition (Stregheria) (1981)
• Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans (1985)

Wicca

Wicca originates in 1940s Britain and becomes the mainstream of Neopaganism in the United States in the 1970s.

Denominations

British Traditional Wicca

• Gardnerian Wicca (1948)
• Alexandrian Wicca (1967)
• Central Valley Wicca (1960s)
• Georgian Wicca (1970)
• Blue Star Wicca (1975)
• Algard Tradition

Other Forms

• Seax-Wica (1973)
• Isian Wicca (1974)
• Dianic Wicca (1975)
• McFarland Dianic (early 1970s)
• Faerie faith (1979)
• Shamanistic Wicca
• Odyssean Wicca (late 1970s)
• Correllian Wicca (1979)
• Celtic Wicca
• Witta (Wicca) (1993)
• Faery Wicca (2000)
• Christian Wicca (2003)

Eclectic Wicca

• Eclectic Wicca

Non-Wiccan Witchcraft

• Contemporary Witchcraft
• Hedgecraft (1992)
• Greenwitch
• Cottagewitch
• Gardenwitch
• Kitchenwitch (2002)
• Stregheria

Organisations

• 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)
• Children of Artemis (1995)

Ethnic

Germanic

• Ásatrú (Norse)
• Íslenska Ásatrúarfélagið (1972)
• Odinic Rite (1973)
• Asatru Free Assembly (1974-1986)
• Asatru Folk Assembly (1996)
• Swedish AsatruSociety (1994)
• Åsatrufellesskapet Bifrost (1996)
• Odinist Fellowship (1996)
• International Asatru-Odinic Alliance (1997-2002)
• Foreningen Forn Sed (1999)
• Theodism (1976)
• Seax-Wica (1973)
• Heidnische Gemeinschaft (1985)
• Neo-Nazi (white supremacist)
• Artgemeinschaft (1951)
• Wotanism (1997)
• Deutsche Heidnische Front (1998)

Celtic

• Neo-druidism (members of most Neo-druidic groups practice eclectic spirituality)
• Ár nDraíocht Féin (1983; some individual members and member groves have a Celtic focus)
• Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism (1980s)

Other European

• Hellenic Neopaganism
• Supreme Council of Ethnikoi Hellenes (1997)
• Hellenion (2002)
• Roman
• Nova Roma
• Slavic Neopaganism
• RUNVira (1966)
• Native Polish Church (1995)
• Native Faith Association of Ukraine (1998)
• Baltic Neopaganism
• Lithuanian (1992)
• Latvian
• Finnish Neopaganism

Ancient Near East

• Kemetism
• Church of the Eternal Source (1970)
• Ausar Auset (1973)
• Kemetic Orthodoxy (1988)
• Judeo-Paganism
• Natib Qadish (1997)

See also

• List of Pagans

External links

• Pagan Traditions: An Overview of Belief Systems

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