Radac
Too young, too simple, sometimes naïve
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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.
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.