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However, due to a few incidents of fraudulent use of Church credentials, misconduct by these individuals, and/or the use of course material to defame the Church and the religion of Wicca, along with public controversy about these instances, this practice was abandoned as of 1976. In some cases, charters have been revoked.
The district court for the Eastern District of Virginia decided in Dettmer's favor, although on appeal the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled that, while Wicca was a religion, he was not being discriminated against. This case marked the first legal recognition of Wicca as a religion. In Cutter v.
Gerald Gardner, the founder of Wicca, claimed that it is a continuation of an ancient persecuted Witch cult, [15] a widely discredited notion. [16] [17] Kemetic Orthodoxy has been criticized for being more based on contemporary revelation than historical continuity. [18]
Huebsch and Walker objected publicly on the basis of her religion to the chaplain's hiring, [2] saying: "Witch's hiring raises both personal and political concerns. Not only does she practice a different religion than most of the inmates – she practices a religion that actually offends people of many other faiths, including Christians, Muslims and Jews."
Gardnerian Wicca, or Gardnerian witchcraft, is a tradition in the neopagan religion of Wicca, whose members can trace initiatory descent from Gerald Gardner. [1] The tradition is itself named after Gardner (1884–1964), a British civil servant and amateur scholar of magic .
Religious discrimination against Neopagans is discrimination against, persecution of, intolerance towards, and opposition to Neopaganism, and Neopagans in general.. Religious discrimination against Neopagans may also specifically encompass religious discrimination against and/or religious persecution toward any one or more Neopagan religion, such as Wicca fo
Modern paganism in the United States is represented by widely different movements and organizations. 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 ...
Wicca is the largest form of modern paganism, [53] as well as the best-known [117] and most extensively studied. [58] Religious studies scholar Graham Harvey noted that the poem "Charge of the Goddess" remains central to the liturgy of most Wiccan groups.