This is a list of Neopagan religions, religious movements and religious organizations. Neopaganism is a wide ranging religious group, including old occult groups, those that follow a New Age approach, those that try to reconstruct old polytheistic faiths, and followers of the religion of Wicca. For organizations, the founding year is given in brackets.
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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)
New Age
Movements began emerging in the 1950s and 1960s; then later eclectic or New Age movements out of the Wiccan mainstream:
- Feri Tradition (1950s)
- New Acropolis (1957)
- 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)
- Ár nDraíocht Féin (1983; some individual members and member groves have a Celtic focus)
- New Reformed Orthodox Order of the Golden Dawn (1968)
- Church and School of Wicca (1968)
- Circle Sanctuary (1974)
- Covenant of the Goddess (1975)
- Federation of Damanhur (1975)
- Radical Faeries (1979)
- Aquarian Tabernacle Church (1979)
- Rowan Tree Church (1979)
- Arician Tradition (Stregheria) (1981)
- Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans (1985)
- Contemporary Witchcraft (1992)
- Children of Artemis (1995)
- Coven of the Far Flung Net (1998)
Wicca and Witchcraft
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.
- British Traditional Wicca
- Gardnerian Wicca (1948)
- Alexandrian Wicca (1967)
- Algard Tradition
- Universal Eclectic Wicca (1969)
- Seax-Wica (1973)
- McFarland Dianic (early 1970s)
- Reclaiming (Neopaganism) (1980)
- 1734 Tradition
- Covenant of the Goddess
- Stregheria
Ethnic
Germanic
- Ásatrú (Norse)
- Íslenska Ásatrúarfélagið (1972)
- Odinic Rite (1973)
- Asatru Free Assembly (1974–86)
- Ring of Troth (1987)
- Asatru Folk Assembly (1996)
- Swedish AsatruSociety (1994)
- Åsatrufellesskapet Bifrost (1996)
- Odinist Fellowship (1996)
- International Asatru-Odinic Alliance (1997–2002)
- Broederskap van Gar / Brotherhood of Gar (see Hendrik Spoorbek)
- Heathenry
- Heathens For Progress (2004)
- Theodism (1976)
- Seax-Wica (1973)
- Heidnische Gemeinschaft (1985)
- Artgemeinschaft (1951)
- Wotanism (1997)
- Deutsche Heidnische Front (1998)
- Folketro
- Foreningen Forn Sed (1999)
- Samfälligheten för Nordisk Sed (1999)
Celtic
Other European
- Hellenic Neopaganism
- Supreme Council of Ethnikoi Hellenes (1997)
- Hellenion (2002)
- Roman
- Nova Roma (1998)
- Slavic Neopaganism
- RUNVira (1966)
- Native Polish Church (1995)
- Native Faith Association of Ukraine (1998)
- Baltic Neopaganism
- Lithuanian (1992)
- Latvian
- Finnish Neopaganism
Ancient Near East
- Judeo-Paganism
- Kemetism
- Ausar Auset (1973)
- Church of the Eternal Source (1970)
- Kemetic Orthodoxy (1988)
See also
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