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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 ...
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 ...
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 .
The largest modern pagan (also known as neo-pagan) religious movement is Wicca, followed by Neodruidism. Both of these religions or spiritual paths were introduced during the 1950s and 1960s from Great Britain. Germanic Neopaganism (also known as Heathenry) and Kemetism appeared in the US in the early 1970s. Hellenic Neopaganism appeared in the ...
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 ...
Al-Masudi, an Arab historian, geographer and traveler, equates the paganism of the Slavs and the Rus' with reason: . There was a decree of the capital of the Khazar khaganate, and there are seven judges in it, two of them from Muslims, two from the Khazars, who judge according to the law of Taura, two from the Christians there, who judge according to the law of Injil, one of them from the ...