AHC: Plurality neopagan state/territory

[Radac]

I was recently researching Russian administrative divisions, and found that a number of oblasts and republics have unusually high Rodnovery populations. At least part of this has to do with ethnic religions, distinct from Rodnovery but grouped alongside them, and majority-Russian areas, low population, but it was still really interesting to me how quickly they grew, especially given that they make up quite a bit of the population in some areas.

There is also a precedent for large pagan populations in the modern day. See South-western England, where pagans make up the fourth-largest religious group - though some say they're the second, or the third. Note here that "pagan" specifically refers to Western neopaganism, not traditions like Hinduism or Chinese folk religion or Shinto- basically, reconstructionist polytheistic religions, mostly in Europe and the Americas but in other places as well - with traditions highly based on modern understanding.

So thought it'd be interesting to ask whether it's possible for this kind of situation to occur in a large enough scale for there to be a plurality neopagan region, state or territory.

 

[TheIO]

I was recently researching Russian administrative divisions, and found that a number of oblasts and republics have unusually high Rodnovery populations. At least part of this has to do with ethnic religions, distinct from Rodnovery but grouped alongside them, and majority-Russian areas, low population, but it was still really interesting to me how quickly they grew, especially given that they make up quite a bit of the population in some areas.

There is also a precedent for large pagan populations in the modern day. See South-western England, where pagans make up the fourth-largest religious group - though some say they're the second, or the third. Note here that "pagan" specifically refers to Western neopaganism, not traditions like Hinduism or Chinese folk religion or Shinto- basically, reconstructionist polytheistic religions, mostly in Europe and the Americas but in other places as well - with traditions highly based on modern understanding.

So thought it'd be interesting to ask whether it's possible for this kind of situation to occur in a large enough scale for there to be a plurality neopagan region, state or territory.

As an example of this, in the 2012 census 30% of North Ossetia-Alania put themselves down as Uatsdin (reconstructed Ossetian/Alan/Scythian paganism) compared to 50% Orthodox.

 

[Radac]

As an example of this, in the 2012 census 30% of North Ossetia-Alania put themselves down as Uatsdin (reconstructed Ossetian/Alan/Scythian paganism) compared to 50% Orthodox.

That being said North Ossetia does have a population of less than 700,000 people.

 

[frustrated progressive]

As an example of this, in the 2012 census 30% of North Ossetia-Alania put themselves down as Uatsdin (reconstructed Ossetian/Alan/Scythian paganism) compared to 50% Orthodox.

How "reconstructed" is this, relative to "Western" neopaganism (the type example that was basically rewoven out of whole cloth)?

 

[TheIO]

How "reconstructed" is this, relative to "Western" neopaganism (the type example that was basically rewoven out of whole cloth)?

That's the part I'm not so sure about - there seems to have been a lot of syncretisation going on and some folk stuff that never completely went away, so there might be a bit too much continuity for them to count.

That being said North Ossetia does have a population of less than 700,000 people.

One has to start somewhere with this.

 

[frustrated progressive]

That's the part I'm not so sure about - there seems to have been a lot of syncretisation going on and some folk stuff that never completely went away, so there might be a bit too much continuity for them to count.

That's what I was concerned about.
Glad I wasn't going up an entirely blind alley.

 

[Bolt451]

Have a group like the Ásatrúarfélagið really take off in Iceland 5000 out of 300,000 Icelanders are Heathen