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  2. List of modern pagan movements - Wikipedia

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    A Wiccan ritual altar. British Traditional Wicca. Gardnerian Wicca (1954) Alexandrian Wicca (1967) Central Valley Wicca (1969) Algard Wicca (1972) Chthonioi Alexandrian Wicca (1974) Blue Star Wicca (1975) Eclectic Wicca and Inclusive Wicca; Celtic Wicca; Covenant of the Goddess; Saxon Wicca; Dianic Wicca. McFarland Dianic Wicca; Faery Wicca ...

  3. Modern paganism - Wikipedia

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    Pagan ritual can take place in both a public and private setting. [70] Contemporary pagan ritual is typically geared towards "facilitating altered states of awareness or shifting mind-sets". [ 79 ] To induce such altered states of consciousness, pagans use such elements as drumming, visualization, chanting, singing, dancing, and meditation. [ 79 ]

  4. Modern paganism in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Witching Culture - Wikipedia

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    Witching Culture: Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America is a folkloric and anthropological study of the Wiccan and wider Pagan community in the United States. It was written by the American anthropologist and folklorist Sabina Magliocco of California State University, Northridge and first published in 2004 by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

  6. Wicca - Wikipedia

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    Wicca (English: / ˈ w ɪ k ə /), also known as "The Craft", [1] is a modern pagan, syncretic, earth-centered religion.Considered a new religious movement by scholars of religion, the path evolved from Western esotericism, developed in England during the first half of the 20th century, and was introduced to the public in 1954 by Gerald Gardner, a retired British civil servant.

  7. Dynion Mwyn - Wikipedia

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    Ritual connects you with the Gods, the Force in nature, the spiritual worlds, and the turning seasons. Dynion Mwyn rituals may take the form of dance and song which is a celebration of life to give thanks to the gods. This ritual may also take the form of special types of magick which are essential to the celebration of the mysteries of Dynion ...

  8. List of modern pagan temples - Wikipedia

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    Church of Eternal Light, Pagan Spiritualist, Bristol, Connecticut [26] Odinshof, Brownsville, Yuba County, California [27] [28] Njörðshof, Asatru Folk Assembly temple, White Springs, Florida [29] RUNVira Temple of Mother Ukraine-Oryana, Spring Glen, New York, in the Catskill Mountains [30] Sekhmet Temple, Cactus Springs, Nevada [31]

  9. Heathen holidays - Wikipedia

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    In the modern pagan movement of Heathenry there are a number of holidays celebrated by different groups and individuals. The most widely observed are based on ancient Germanic practices described in historical accounts or folk practices; however, some adherents also incorporate innovations from the 20th and 21st centuries.