A
Western religious
movement begun in the mid-
Twentieth Century in which people rebelled against the dominant
Judeo-Christian religions and began to explore the world-wide
pagan heritage as sources of valid religious
material and experiences. Neopaganism is comprised of a wide variety of small groups called
Traditions which include
Wicca,
Asatru,
Faerie, Orders of
Ceremonial Magic like the
OTO,
Discordianism,
Santeria,
Voudoun,
Satanism and many revivalist groups focussed on specific classical
pantheons like Greek or Egyptian.
Since the definition of neopaganism is largely negative (roughly, neopaganism is anything which is not one of the big five world religions being practiced now) there is little uniformity in doctrine or liturgy among neopagan groups as a whole. Some common themes are quite popular however including Goddess worship, polytheism, magic, anti-clericalism, anti-hierarchicalism, and non-dogmatism.