<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> It has been suggested that list of Neopagan movements be merged into this article . (Discuss) Proposed since July 2017 . </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> It has been suggested that list of Neopagan movements be merged into this article . (Discuss) Proposed since July 2017 . </Td> </Tr> <P> Modern Paganism, also known as Contemporary Paganism and Neopaganism, is a collective term for new religious movements influenced by or claiming to be derived from the various historical pagan beliefs of pre-modern Europe, North Africa and the Near East . Although they do share similarities, contemporary Pagan religious movements are diverse, and no single set of beliefs, practices or texts are shared by them all . Most academics studying the phenomenon have treated it as a movement of different religions, whereas a minority instead characterise it as a single religion into which different Pagan faiths fit as denominations . Not all members of faiths or beliefs regarded as Neopagan self - identify as "Pagan". </P> <P> Adherents rely on pre-Christian, folkloric and ethnographic sources to a variety of degrees; many follow a spirituality which they accept as being entirely modern, while others attempt to reconstruct or revive indigenous, ethnic religions as found in historical and folkloric sources as accurately as possible . Academic research has placed the Pagan movement along a spectrum, with Eclecticism on one end and Polytheistic Reconstructionism on the other . Polytheism, animism and pantheism are common features in Pagan theology . Rituals take place in both public and in private domestic settings . </P>

The form of contemporary paganism that is especially popular in england is