* List of Neopagan movements

Soon a great debate began in the media, with some adherents involved in the Neopagan and New Age movements arguing that they had " a kind of spiritual ownership of the circle ", and they wanted it left in situ, and not disturbed by further archaeological excavation.

Sophia is honored as a Goddess of wisdom within the Neopagan and New Age movements, as well as within feminist-inspired Goddess spirituality.

From the mid 20th century, Eastern and Western spiritual traditions were increasingly syncretized in the various movements associated with the New Age and Neopagan countercultures.

Pagan rock is music created by ( and in some cases for ) adherents of one of the many Neopagan and occult traditions that emerged in the middle to late 20th century.

Since the appearance of Inkubus Sukkubus, many gothic rock and darkwave bands have emerged with Neopagan members and lyrical themes.

Traditional pre-Christian elements are often adopted into modern Christian and secular wedding ceremonies in many parts of Europe ( syncretism ), and a handfasting-style ceremony is also practised outside of the Neopagan subculture.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, Pan became a significant figure in the Romantic movement of western Europe, and also in the 20th-century Neopagan movement.

The term, thealogy, increasingly appeared in feminist literature associated with the Neopagan Goddess movement during the 1980s to 1990s.

He noted that many of those currently referring to themselves as cunning-folk, wise women, white witches and the like during the 1990s and 2000s were explicitly Neopagan in their faith, which influenced their magical workings.

Neopagan wicker men range from life sized to huge, humanoid, temporary sculptures that are set ablaze during a celebration, usually toward the end of the event.

The New Forest coven were a group of Neopagan witches or Wiccans who allegedly met around the area of the New Forest in southern England during the 1930s and 1940s.

Beit Asherah " the house of the Goddess Asherah ", was one of the first Neopagan synagogues, founded in the early 1990s by Stephanie Fox, Steven Posch, and Magenta Griffiths ( Lady Magenta ).

Historian Ronald Hutton noted that the low magic of the cunning folk was one of the lesser influences upon the development of the Neopagan religion of Wicca and related witchcraft-based groups in the early twentieth century.

For instance, one of the pioneering English Neopagan Witches, Robert Cochrane, who would describe himself under such titles as " pellar " and who led a coven known as the Clan of Tubal Cain in the early 1960s, allegedly contained elements borrowed from the cunning craft in his tradition, known as Cochrane's Craft.

Responsible for writing much of the early Gardnerian religious liturgy, in later years she also helped to play a big part in bringing the Neopagan religion of Wicca to wider public attention through the publication of a string of books on the subject.

Lois Bourne is an influential figure in the Neopagan religion of Wicca, having been involved in it from the early 1960s, and has written a number of books on the subject.

Unlike the previous dabbling with occult and romantic pre-Christian themes pursued by rock bands in the 1960s and early 1970s ( as typified by artists such as Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and Donovan ), these new artists were earnest subscribers to Neopagan religion ( in the case of Pendderwen ), and ritual magick ( in the case of P-Orridge and Balance Thee Temple ov Psychic Youth ).

Flowers was instrumental in the early establishment of the Germanic Neopagan movement in North America.

In the USA, early Germanic Neopagan groups such as Else Christensen's Odinist Fellowship held National Socialist philosophies, but later dropped these associations.

Leo Martello ( 1931 – 2000 ) was an author, lecturer, gay civil rights activist, and an early voice in the American Neopagan movement.

In the 20th century, with the rise of the Neopagan movement across the world, Finnish Neopaganism arose as a reconstructed form of the old religion.

This theory influenced the Neopagan notion of the Horned God, as an archetype of male virility and sexuality.

Another figure to formulate a contemporary Neopagan tradition influenced by the Oera Linda was Tony Steele, a self-professed English " Traditional Witch ", who considered the book to reveal the genuine truth about the megalithic culture.

This page contains Wikipedians who have identified themselves ( at least on Wikipedia ) as being Neopagans, or influenced by Neopagan ideas.

* McFarland Dianic, a Neopagan Faerie Faith lineage tradition started by Morgan McFarland ; one of relatively few Dianic traditions which accepts male members.

by Aleister Crowley and subsequently went on to found the Neopagan religion of Wicca.

Whilst this theory is today widely disputed and discredited by historians like Norman Cohn, Keith Thomas and Ronald Hutton, it has had a significant effect in the origins of Neopagan religions, primarily Wicca, a faith she supported.

The term " Neopagan " is deemed offensive and not used by many contemporary Pagans, who claim that the inclusion of the term " neo " disconnects them from their ancient polytheistic ancestors.

The Brotherhood of the Phoenix was founded in the summer of 2004 by seven gay men from diverse traditions such as ceremonial magic, shamanism, and pre-Gardnerian witchcraft in order to create an ecumenical Neopagan tradition which serves the community of men who love men.

Throughout the twentieth century, Stonehenge began to be revived as a place of religious significance, this time by adherents of Neopagan and New Age beliefs, particularly the Neo-druids: the historian Ronald Hutton would later remark that " it was a great, and potentially uncomfortable, irony that modern Druids had arrived at Stonehenge just as archaeologists were evicting the ancient Druids from it.

Examples include K. Ehrenberg's charcoal illustration Gastmahl in Walhalla ( mit einziehenden Einheriern ) ( 1880 ), Richard Wagner's depiction of Valhalla in his opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen ( 1848 – 1874 ), the Munich, Germany-based Germanic Neopagan magazine Walhalla ( 1905 – 1913 ), and the comic series Valhalla ( 1978, ongoing ) by Peter Madsen, and its subsequent animated film of the same name ( 1986 ).

Western magical traditions include hermetic magic and its many offshoots predominantly inspired by the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, as well as Wicca and some other Neopagan religions and contemporary forms of paganism.

The excavators also had to contend with protests mounted both by locals and by Neopagan groups, which were led by the Chairman of the Parish Council, Geoff Needham, a former fisherman.

One of the most vocal protestors, the Neopagan and conservationist Buster Nolan, informed a reporter from the Eastern Daily Press that " Seahenge has more meaning and power on the beach here at Holme than it does anywhere else … This is 60 grand being spent by archaeologists who are patting each other on the back, telling each other they're doing the right thing.

Renditions of Mjöllnir are designed, crafted and sold by some Germanic Neopagan groups and individuals.

Alexandrian Wicca is a tradition of the Neopagan religion of Wicca, founded by Alex Sanders ( also known as " King of the Witches ") who, with his wife Maxine Sanders, established the tradition in the United Kingdom in the 1960s.

Although some twentieth and twenty-first century Neopagan authors, such as Rae Beth, have claimed that the British cunning folk were followers of a surviving, pre-Christian " pagan " religion, this is something rejected by historians.

The Neopagan Faerie Faith founded by Roberts and Epona is often confused with other traditions of similar name, including:

The valknut symbol plays a role in modern Germanic Neopagan faiths, where numerous explanations and interpretations of the symbol are given, has been used by various political groups, and sometimes sees use in modern popular culture.

It was directed by Donna Read and written by Erna Buffie, and features interviews with feminist and Neopagan notables, such as Starhawk, Margot Adler, and Matthew Fox.