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Modern Paganism
Neopaganism; Heathenry; contemporary Druidry; polytheist reconstructionism
c.1717 / 1960s CE – present · Esoteric / Occult · Living · UK, US, Iceland, Lithuania, Greece, Russia, Brazil
VIII. POSTWAR & CONTEMPORARY — 1945 – PRESENT
### How many
### Who began it
### What it is for
### What it worships
### What it holds
### What it does
### After death
### Its texts
### Its branches
### Of note
### Its timeline
- 1717, 1781 CE Ancient Order of Druids and antiquarian druidry founded in London — invented tradition, not survival.
- 1792 CE Iolo Morganwg holds the first Gorsedd; he forged a great deal of the material and also created institutions still functioning in Welsh culture.
- 1964 CE Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids founded.
- <strong>1972–73 CE</strong> Ásatrúarfélagið is legally recognised in Iceland, the first modern state recognition of a reconstructed pre-Christian religion. It is now one of Iceland's fastest-growing religious bodies and built its first temple in decades at Reykjavík.
- 1970s–90s CE Rodnovery in the Slavic world; Romuva in Lithuania, recognised in 1992; Hellenism organises in Greece.
- 1998 CE Ásatrú recognised in Denmark; similar recognitions follow in Norway, Spain and elsewhere.
- 2017 CE Greece formally recognises Hellenic religion.
- 2000s–present A sustained and public conflict between inclusive Heathen organisations and folkish groups that restrict membership by ancestry; The Troth, Ásatrúarfélagið and others have repeatedly and explicitly repudiated the use of Norse symbolism by white nationalists.
- 2019 CE US Army authorises Heathen and Ásatrú religious accommodation and emblems.
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