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Voices from the Pagan Census: A National Survey of Witches and Neo-Pagans in the United States. University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-57003-488-6. Helen A Berger (1999). A Community of Witches: Contemporary Neo-paganism and Witchcraft in the United States. University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-57003-246-2. Margot Adler (2006).
The list of religious populations article provides a comprehensive overview of the distribution and size of religious groups around the world. This article aims to present statistical information on the number of adherents to various religions, including major faiths such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and others, as well as smaller religious communities.
Paganism has broadly connoted the "religion of the peasantry". [1] [5] During and after the Middle Ages, the term paganism was applied to any non-Christian religion, and the term presumed a belief in "false gods". [6] [7] The origin of the application of the term "pagan" to polytheism is debated. [8]
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 modern popularisation of the terms pagan and neopagan as they are currently understood is largely traced to Oberon Zell-Ravenheart, co-founder of the 1st Neo-Pagan Church of All Worlds who, beginning in 1967 with the early issues of Green Egg, used both terms for the growing movement. This usage has been common since the pagan revival in ...
A Pew Research Center Study shows that 10% of all Europeans could be members of the Muslim faith by 2050.
Many neo-pagan religions such as Wicca, Druidry and Celtic polytheism have active followings in Ireland, [1] [2] although the number of declared adherents is likely quite small. [3] It has been claimed to be the fastest growing religion in Ireland. [4]
Hinduism is a growing religion in countries such as Ghana, [292] Russia, [293] and the United States. [294] [295] According to 2011 census, Hinduism has become the fastest-growing religion in Australia since 2006, [296] due to migration from India and Fiji. [297] Generally, the term "conversion" is not applicable to Hindu traditions.