Editing Modern paganism (section)

====Volga region====
The [[Mari native religion]] in fact has a continuous existence, but it has co-existed with Orthodox Christianity for centuries and experienced a renewal after the fall of the Soviet Union. A sociological survey conducted in 2004 found that about 15 percent of the population of Mari El consider themselves adherents of the Mari native religion. Since Mari make up just 45 percent of the republic's population of 700,000, this figure means that probably more than a third claim to follow the old religion.<ref>Nikolaus von Twickel. ''[http://www.sptimes.ru/story/29399 Europe's Last Pagans Worship in Mari-El Grove] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130617063334/http://www.sptimes.ru/story/29399 |date=17 June 2013 }}''. Saint Petersburg Times, 2009.</ref> The percentage of pagans among the Mari of Bashkortostan and the eastern part of Tatarstan is even higher (up to 69% among women). Mari fled here from forced Christianization in the 17th to 19th centuries.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Шнирельман |first1=Виктор |title=Неоязычество на просторах Евразии |date=2001 |location=Москва |isbn=5-89647-050-9}}</ref> A similar number was claimed by [[Victor Schnirelmann]], for whom between a quarter and a half of the Mari either worship the pagan gods or are members of modern pagan groups.<ref>Victor Schnirelmann. ''[http://www.wlu.ca/documents/6483/Christians_Go_home.pdf Christians Go Home!] {{Webarchive|url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20140922163017/http://www.wlu.ca/documents/6483/Christians_Go_home.pdf |date=22 September 2014 }}''. Journal of Contemporary Religion 17.2. 2002.</ref>

A modern pagan movement drawing from various syncretic practices that had survived among the Christianised Mari people was initiated in 1990<ref name="Schnirelmann206">Schnirelmann, Victor: ''[https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20140922163017/http://www.wlu.ca/documents/6483/Christians_Go_home.pdf "Christians! Go home": A Revival of Neo-Paganism between the Baltic Sea and Transcaucasia]''. Journal of Contemporary Religion, Vol. 17, No. 2, 2002. p. 206.</ref> that was estimated in 2004 to have won the adherence of 2% of the Mordvin people.<ref>Schnirelmann, Victor: ''[https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20140922163017/http://www.wlu.ca/documents/6483/Christians_Go_home.pdf "Christians! Go home": A Revival of Neo-Paganism between the Baltic Sea and Transcaucasia]''. Journal of Contemporary Religion, Vol. 17, No. 2, 2002. '''p. 208'''</ref>