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Modern pagans are a religious minority in every country where they exist [1] and have been subject to religious discrimination and/or religious persecution. The largest modern pagans communities are in North America and the United Kingdom, and the issue of discrimination receives most attention in those locations, but there are also reports ...
Based on the most recent survey by the Pew Research Center, there are approximately one million pagans in the United States. 0.3% of respondents answered "Pagan" or "Wiccan" when polled. [ 153 ] According to Helen A. Berger 's 1995 survey "The Pagan Census", most American pagans are middle-class, educated , and live in urban/suburban areas on ...
The 2014 Pew Research Center's Religious Landscapes Survey included a subset of the New Age Spiritual Movement called "Pagan or Wiccan," reflecting that 3/4 of individuals identifying as New Age also identified as Pagan or Wiccan and placing Wiccans and Pagans at 0.3% of the total U.S. population or approximately 956,000 people of just over ...
From 1993 through 1995, Helen A. Berger and Andras Corban Arthen, founder of Neo-Pagan group EarthSpirit Community, surveyed just over two thousand Neo-Pagans in the United States as part of their "Pagan Census". Berger and her colleagues found overall 67.8% reported as heterosexual, 9.3% homosexual (4.8% lesbian, 4.5% gay male), and 19% as ...
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 .
Modern paganism, also known as contemporary paganism [1] and neopaganism, [2] is a collective term for new religious movements which are influenced by or derived from the various historical pagan beliefs of pre-modern peoples.
Contemporary knowledge of old pagan religions and beliefs comes from several sources, including anthropological field research records, the evidence of archaeological artifacts, and the historical accounts of ancient writers regarding cultures known to Classical antiquity. Most modern pagan religions existing today express a worldview that is ...
Pagans by nationality (6 C) Modern paganism by country (29 C, 5 P) F. Finnish paganism (2 C, 6 P) L. Paganism in Lithuania (3 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Paganism by ...