Editing Modern paganism (section)

===Reconstructionist===
[[File:Svetoary community celebrating Mokosh 2016.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|The community of the [[Union of Slavic Native Belief Communities]] celebrating [[Mokosh]]]]
{{Main|Polytheistic reconstructionism}}

In contrast to the eclectic traditions, [[Polytheistic Reconstructionism|Polytheistic Reconstructionists]] practice culturally specific ethnic traditions based on folklore, songs and prayers, as well as reconstructions from the historical record. [[Hellenic Polytheistic Reconstructionism|Hellenic]], [[Roman polytheistic reconstructionism|Roman]], [[Kemetism|Kemetic]], [[Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism|Celtic]], [[Heathenry (new religious movement)|Germanic]], [[Church of the Guanche People|Guanche]], [[Baltic Neopaganism|Baltic]] and [[Slavic neopaganism|Slavic]] reconstructionists aim to preserve and revive the practices and beliefs of [[Religion in ancient Greece|Ancient Greece]], [[Ancient Rome]], [[Ancient Egyptian religion|Ancient Egypt]], the [[Celtic polytheism|Celts]], the [[Germanic Paganism|Germanic peoples]], the [[Guanches|Guanche]] people, the [[Baltic mythology|Balts]] and the [[Slavic mythology|Slavs]], respectively.<ref>Davy, Barbara Jane (2007) "Introduction to pagan studies". Rowman Altamira {{ISBN|0-7591-0818-8}}. p.97: "Some pagans embrace the idea of a pan-European Celtic culture, but some practice regionally specific reconstructionist traditions."</ref><ref>McColman, Carl (2003) ''Complete Idiot's Guide to Celtic Wisdom''. Alpha Press {{ISBN|0-02-864417-4}}. p.12: "Some groups have gone even further, trying to use archaeology, religious history, [[comparative mythology]], and even the study of non-Celtic [[Indo-European languages|Indo-European]] religions in an effort to create a well-researched and scholarly 'reconstruction' of the ancient Celts."</ref><ref>{{Cite book | last1 = Gallagher | first1 = Eugene V. | last2 = Ashcraft | first2 = W. Michael | title = Introduction to new and alternative religions in America | url = https://archive.org/details/introductiontone00gall | url-access = limited | year = 2006 | publisher = Greenwood Press | location = Westport, Conn. | isbn = 978-0-275-98713-8 | page = [https://archive.org/details/introductiontone00gall/page/n194 178]}}</ref>

====Germanic====
{{Main|Heathenry (new religious movement)}}
[[File:Nordiska gudabilder vid julgille.jpg|thumb|A Heathen altar for household worship in [[Gothenburg]], Sweden]]

Heathenism, also known as Germanic neopaganism, refers to a series of contemporary pagan traditions based on the historical religions, culture and literature of Germanic-speaking Europe. Heathenry is spread out across northwestern Europe, North America and Australasia, where the descendants of historic Germanic-speaking people now live.{{Sfn|Harvey|2007|p=53}}

Many Heathen groups adopt variants of [[Norse mythology]] as a basis for their beliefs, conceiving of the Earth as on the great world tree [[Yggdrasil]]. Heathens believe in multiple polytheistic deities adopted from historical Germanic mythologies. Most are polytheistic realists, believing that the deities are real entities, while others view them as [[Jungian archetypes]].{{Sfn|Harvey|2007|p=54-58}}

====Celtic====
{{main|Celtic neopaganism}}

====Slavic====
{{main|Slavic Native Faith}} 
[[Slavic paganism|Slavic]] neo-paganism, or Slavic nativism, is a reconstruction of the pre-Christian pagan beliefs of the ancient Slavs, a return to the worship of [[Perun]], [[Veles (god)|Veles]], Makosh, etc. based on some historical information and one's own ideas, with borrowings from the teachings and rituals of polytheistic beliefs of other peoples and the occult.

====Uralic====
{{main|Uralic neopaganism}}

====Baltic====
{{main|Baltic neopaganism}}

====Greek====
{{main|Hellenism (modern religion)}}

====Roman====
{{main|Reconstructionist Roman religion}}

==== Kemetic ====
{{main|Kemetism}}

====Semitic====
{{Main|Semitic neopaganism}}

Beit Asherah (the house of the Goddess [[Asherah]]) was one of the first modern pagan synagogues, founded in the early 1990s by Stephanie Fox, Steven Posch, and Magenta Griffiths (Lady Magenta). Magenta Griffiths is High Priestess of the Beit Asherah coven, and a former board member of the [[Covenant of the Goddess]].{{Sfn|Lewis|2000|p=162}}

====Armenian====
{{main|Hetanism}}

====Chuvash====
{{main|Vattisen Yaly}}

The [[Chuvash people]], a [[Turkic peoples|Turkic]] ethnic group native to an area stretching from the [[Volga Region]] to [[Siberia]], have experienced a pagan revival since the fall of the [[Soviet Union]].<ref name="Chuvash culture"/> While potentially considered a peculiar form of [[Tengrism]], a related revivalist movement of Central Asian traditional religion, [[Vattisen Yaly]] ({{langx|cv|Ваттисен йӑли}}, ''Tradition of the Old'') differs significantly: the Chuvash being a heavily [[Finnic peoples|Fennicised]] and [[Slavic peoples|Slavified]] ethnicity and having had exchanges also with other [[Indo-European languages|Indo-European]] ethnicities,<ref name="Stetsyuk">Valentin Stetsyuk. ''Introduction to the Study of Prehistoric Ethnogenic Processes in Eastern Europe and Asia, The Turkic Tribe Bulgar in Eastern Europe''. Lviv, Ukraine.</ref> their religion shows many similarities with Finnic and Slavic paganisms; moreover, the revival of Vattisen Yaly in recent decades has occurred following modern pagan patterns.<ref name="Filatov">Sergei Filatov, Aleksandr Shchipkov. ''Religious Developments among the Volga Nations as a Model for the Russian Federation''. Religion, State & Society, Vol. 23, No. 3, 1995. pp. 239–243</ref> Today the followers of the Chuvash Traditional Religion are called "the true Chuvash".<ref name="Chuvash culture">''[http://www.chuvashculture.org/node/42 Chuvash faith and beliefs] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090815034949/http://www.chuvashculture.org/node/42 |date=15 August 2009 }}''. Chuvash Culture Portal.</ref> Their main god is Tura, a deity comparable to the Estonian [[Tharapita|Taara]], the [[Germanic peoples|Germanic]] [[Thor|Thunraz]] and the pan-Turkic [[Tengri]].<ref name="Stetsyuk"/>