List of neopagan traditions
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This is a list of Neopagan traditions, 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.
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Early movements
Pre-World War II Neopagan or Proto-Neopagan groups, growing out of occultism and/or Romanticism (Viking revival, Celtic revival).
- The Druid Order (1717)
- Ancient Order of Druids (1781)
- Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (1888)
- Germanic mysticism
- Germanische Glaubens-Gemeinschaft (1907)
- Guido von List Society (1908)
- Church of the Universal Bond (1912)
- Crowleyan Thelema (1930s)
Eclectic/New Age
Post-WWII movements emerging in the 1950s to 1960s, and later eclectic or New Age movements out of the Wiccan mainsteam.
- Feri Tradition (1950s)
- Feraferia (1957)
- Church of All Worlds (1962)
- Neo-druidism (1960s; members of most Neo-druidic groups practice eclectic spirituality)
- Reformed Druids of North America (1963)
- Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids (1964)
- British Druid Order (1979)
- Federation of Damanhur (1975)
- Radical Faeries (1979)
- Reclaiming (Neopaganism) (1980)
- Arician Tradition (Stregheria) (1981)
- Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans (1985)
Wicca
Wicca originates in 1940s Britain and becomes the mainstream of Neopaganism in the United States in the 1970s.
Denominations
British Traditional Wicca
- Gardnerian Wicca (1948)
- Alexandrian Wicca (1967)
- Central Valley Wicca (1960s)
- Georgian Wicca (1970)
- Blue Star Wicca (1975)
- Algard Tradition
Other Forms
- Hedge Witchcraft
- Seax-Wica (1973)
- Isian Wicca (1974)
- Dianic Wicca (1975)
- McFarland Dianic (early 1970s)
- Faerie faith (1979)
- Apple Branch (1999)
- Shamanistic Wicca
- Odyssean Wicca (late 1970s)
- Correllian Wicca (1979)
- Celtic Wicca
- Witta (Wicca) (1993)
- Faery Wicca (2000)
- Christian Wicca (2003)
Eclectic Wicca
Eclectic and Traditional Witchcraft
Organisations
- New Reformed Orthodox Order of the Golden Dawn (1968)
- Church and School of Wicca (1968)
- Circle Sanctuary (1974)
- Covenant of the Goddess (1975)
- Aquarian Tabernacle Church (1979)
- Rowan Tree Church (1979)
- Assembly of the Sacred Wheel (1993)
- Children of Artemis (1995)
Ethnic
- Further information: Polytheistic reconstructionism
Germanic
- Ásatrú (Norse)
- Íslenska Ásatrúarfélagið (1972)
- Odinic Rite (1973)
- Asatru Free Assembly (1974-1986)
- Asatru Folk Assembly (1996)
- Swedish AsatruSociety (1994)
- Åsatrufellesskapet Bifrost (1996)
- Odin Brotherhood
- Odinist Fellowship (1996)
- International Asatru-Odinic Alliance (1997-2002)
- Foreningen Forn Sed (1999)
- Theodism (1976)
- Seax-Wica (1973)
- Heidnische Gemeinschaft (1985)
- Neo-Nazi (white supremacist)
- Artgemeinschaft (1951)
- Wotanism (1997)
- Deutsche Heidnische Front (1998)
Celtic
- Neo-druidism (members of most Neo-druidic groups practice eclectic spirituality)
- Ár nDraíocht Féin (1983; some individual members and member groves have a Celtic focus)
- Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism (1980s)
Other European
- Hellenic Neopaganism
- Supreme Council of Ethnikoi Hellenes (1997)
- Hellenion (2002)
- Roman
- Slavic Neopaganism
- RUNVira (1966)
- Native Polish Church (1995)
- Native Faith Association of Ukraine (1998)
- Baltic Neopaganism
- Lithuanian (1992)
- Latvian
- Finnish Neopaganism
Ancient Near East
- Kemetism
- Church of the Eternal Source (1970)
- Ausar Auset (1973)
- Kemetic Orthodoxy (1988)
- Judeo-Paganism
- Natib Qadish (1997)
