neopaganism

Yule traditions new and old wish good riddance to 2020 at the winter solstice

By Emily McFarlan Miller — December 19, 2020
(RNS) — The symbolism of the solstice resonates at the end of a dark, difficult year punctuated by a pandemic, political protests and a presidential election.

Author Kristen J. Sollée takes a journey to the ‘witchy history places’

By Emily McFarlan Miller — October 30, 2020
(RNS) — Kristen J. Sollée's book 'Witch Hunt' is part travelogue, part memoir, with a dash of historical fiction, and it comes at a time when, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, readers aren't able to travel.

Soviet power gone, Baltic countries’ historic pagan past re-emerges

By Aliide Naylor — May 31, 2019
SAMMA, Estonia (RNS) — The Maausk community, along with Estonia’s other prominent neopagans, the Taaraists, tripled in size from 2001 to 2011, the latest figures available from the national census.

Maine man wins right to wear ‘horns of power’ in license photo

By Kimberly Winston — December 15, 2016
(RNS) Phelan MoonSong touted his goathorn headdress as "religiously required."

The ‘spiritual descendants of Vikings’ take their turn in the spotlight

By Kimberly Winston — February 5, 2015
(RNS) Followers of the Viking religion, called Asatru, are getting their first temple in 1,000 years in Iceland. But the ancient faith has spread farther than any Viking ever traveled, to Australia, New Zealand and at least 21 U.S. states.
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