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Neopaganism: New Age
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Neopaganism is an independent movement. It has its own origin or history and own unique character. It ... pursues its own individual course. Neopaganism is not a 'major trend' within New Age.
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Neopaganism includes a variety of new religious movements that are influenced by ancient Pagan religions. The modern neopagan faiths have been constructed from beliefs, symbols, deities, ritual practices and other elements of ancient religions. While there are many different individual neopagan religions practiced today, there are a few elements common to the all of them.
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Neopaganism contains elements that are practically, if not entirely, non-existent in New Age. The mythology of the older religions, together with fairy tales and wisdom literature, plays an important role. Such elements in New Age occur only sporadically. When they do, they are viewed from a Jungian perspective. In Neopaganism, animals, especially as guide animals, are very important. They play a supernatural role as their appearance is never coincidental and they convey messages to people by their behaviour.
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In the USA today Wicca is sometimes (mis)used loosely to equate with any form of Neopaganism; while Wicca is by far the largest form of Neopaganism in the US, it is nonetheless a subset of the larger Neopagan movement. This error is common among outsiders and newcomers, less so among those who've been involved with the Neopagan community for significant amounts of time. British based Neopaganism, on the other hand, used to use the term 'Wicca' much more narrowly, as Gardnerian or Alexandrian Wicca; ... a third generation of Wicca descended from Gardnerian is now flourishing, notably Seax-Wica.
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In Cyberhenge, Douglas E. Cowan brings together two fascinating and virtually unavoidable phenomena of contemporary life; the Internet and the new religious movement of Neopaganism. For growing numbers of Neopagans-Wiccans, Druids, Goddess-worshippers, and others, the Internet provides an environment alive with possibilities for invention, innovation, and imagination.
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