Editing Modern paganism (section)

====Wicca====
{{Main|Wicca}}

[[File:Mabon-Fall Equinox 2015 Altar by the Salt Lake Pagan Society, Salt Lake City, UT.jpg|thumb|right|Mabon–fall equinox 2015 altar by the Salt Lake Pagan Society of Salt Lake City, Utah. Displayed are seasonal decorations, altar tools, elemental candles, flowers, deity statues, cookies and juice offerings, and a nude Gods painting of Thor, the Green Man, and Cernunnos dancing around a Mabon Fire.]]

Wicca is the largest form of modern paganism,{{sfn|Strmiska|2005|p=47}} as well as the best-known{{sfnm|1a1=Strmiska|1y=2005|1p=2|2a1=Rountree|2y=2015|2p=4}} and most extensively studied.{{sfn|Strmiska|2005|p=2}}

Religious studies scholar Graham Harvey noted that the poem "[[Charge of the Goddess]]" remains central to the liturgy of most Wiccan groups. Originally written by Wiccan High Priestess [[Doreen Valiente]] in the mid-1950s, the poem allows Wiccans to gain wisdom and experience deity in "the ordinary things in life."{{Sfn|Harvey|2007|pp=36–37}}

Historian [[Ronald Hutton]] identified a wide variety of different sources that influenced Wicca's development, including [[ceremonial magic]], folk magic, Romanticist literature, [[Freemasonry]], and the [[Witch-cult hypothesis|witch-cult theory]] of English archaeologist [[Margaret Murray]].{{Sfn|Hutton|1999}} English esotericist [[Gerald Gardner (Wiccan)|Gerald Gardner]] was at the forefront of the burgeoning Wiccan movement. He claimed to have been initiated by the [[New Forest coven]] in 1939, and that the religion he discovered was a survival of the pagan witch-cult described in Murray's theory. Various forms of Wicca have since evolved or been adapted from Gardner's British Traditional Wicca or [[Gardnerian Wicca]], such as [[Alexandrian Wicca]]. Other forms loosely based on Gardner's teachings are [[Faery Wicca]], [[Kemetic Wicca]], [[Judeo-paganism]] or jewitchery, and [[Dianic Wicca]] or feminist Wicca, which emphasizes the divine feminine, often creating women-only or lesbian-only groups.{{sfn|Telesco|2005|p=114}} In the academic community Wicca has also been interpreted as having close affinities with [[process philosophy]].<ref>{{Cite book|title = Hidden Circles in the Web: Feminist Wicca, Occult Knowledge, and Process Thought|last = Wise|first = Constance|publisher = Rowman Altamira|year = 2008}}</ref>

In the 1990s, Wiccan beliefs and practices were used as a partial basis for a number of US films and television series, such as ''[[The Craft (film)|The Craft]]'', ''[[Charmed]]'' and ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV series)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', leading to a surge in teenagers' and young adults' interest and involvement in the religion.{{Sfn|Berger|Ezzy|2007}}{{Sfn|Johnston|Aloi|2007}}