List of Neopagan movements
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List of Neopagan movements
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 movementsPre-World War II Neopagan or Proto-Neopagan groups, growing out of occultism and/or Romanticism (Viking revival, Celtic revival).
Eclectic/New AgePost-WWII movements emerging in the 1950s to 1960s, and later eclectic or New Age movements out of the Wiccan mainsteam.
Wicca
Wicca originates in 1940s Britain and becomes 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. These are sometimes referred to as British Traditional Wicca. From these two Traditions of Wicca arose several other Traditions that are variants of these central two. 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.
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Celtic
Other European
Ancient Near East
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