List of modern pagan movements

This is a list of Neopagan (Reconstructionist and Wiccan, eclectic) movements and organizations. For organizations, the founding year is given in brackets.

Early movements

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

• Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (1888)
• Germanic mysticism
  • Germanische Glaubens-Gemeinschaft (1907)
  • Guido von List Society (1908)
• Crowleyan Thelema (1930s)

Eclectic/New Age

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

• Feri Tradition (1950s)
• Feraferia (1957)
• Church of All Worlds (1962)
• Reclaiming (neopaganism) (1980)
• Arician Tradition (Stregheria) (1981)

Wicca

Main article: Wicca

Wicca originates in 1940s Britain and becomes the mainstream of Neopaganism in the United States in the 1960s to 1970s.

• Gardnerian Wicca (British Traditional Wicca) (1948)
• Alexandrian Wicca (1967)
• Aquarian Tabernacle Church
• Arcadia VZW
• Blue Star Wicca
• Celtic Wicca
• Children of Artemis
• Christian Wicca
• Central Valley Wicca
• Church and School of Wicca
• Covenant of the Goddess
• Dianic Wicca (1975)
  • McFarland Dianic
  • Temple of Diana
• Faerie faith
  • Faery Wicca
  • Radical Faeries
• New Reformed Orthodox Order of the Golden Dawn
• Odyssean Wicca
• Rowan Tree Church
• Seax-Wica
• Shamanistic - Wicca
• Witta (Wicca)

Ethnic/reconstructivist

Revivals of ethnic traditions appear from ca. 1970, partly growing out of Wicca, with a second, reconstructionist wave in the 1990s.

Germanic

Main article: Germanic neopaganism

• Ásatrú (Norse)
  • Asatru Folk Assembly (1971, 1974, 1996)
  • Íslenska Ásatrúarfélagið (1973)
  • Odinic Rite (1973)
  • 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)

Celtic

• Neo-Druidism
  • Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids (1964)
  • British Druid Order (1979)
  • Ár nDraíocht Féin (1983)
• Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism (1990s)
• Celtic Wicca (2001)

Other European

• Hellenic neopaganism
  • Supreme Council of Ethnikoi Hellenes (1997)
  • Hellenion (2002)
• Slavic neopaganism
  • Native Polish Church (1995)
• Baltic neopaganism
  • Lithuanian (1992)
  • Latvian
• Finnish neopaganism

Ancient Near East

• Judeo-Paganism
• Natib Qadish (1997)
• Kemetism
  • Ausar Auset (1973)
  • Kemetic Orthodoxy (1988)

See also

• List of Pagans
• List of new religious movements

External links

• "Pagan Traditions: An Overview of Belief Systems". Retrieved 2006-11-23.