Editing Modern paganism (section)

===Ethnic and regional===
[[File:Pagan religions symbols - 4 rows.png|thumb|Collection of various symbols used for or by modern pagan religions or groups.

The symbols are identified by the uploader as (from left to right):

1st Row
[[Slavic Rodnovery]] ("Slavic Cross")
[[Celtic Neopaganism]] (or general triskele / triple spiral)
[[Germanic Heathenism]] ("Thor's Hammer")
[[Dievturi|Latvian Dievturi]] ("Cross of crosses or Cross of Māra")
2nd Row
[[Hellenism (modern religion)|Hellenism]]
[[Armenian Hetanism]] ("Arevakhach")
[[Italo-Roman Neopaganism]]
[[Kemetism]] ("ankh", key of life, handled cross)
3rd Row
[[Wicca]] (pentagram or pentacle)
[[Finnish Neopaganism]] ("Tursaansydän")
[[Hungarian Neopaganism]] (double cross or "világfa", world tree)
[[Romuva (religion)|Lithuanian Romuva]] (sun symbol composed of [[grass snakes]])
4th Row
[[Estonian Neopaganism]] ("Jumiõis", cornflower)
[[Circassian Habzism]] ("hammer cross")
[[Semitic Neopaganism]] ("hamsa")
[[Goddess movement]] and Wicca (raised-arms female figure)]]

For some pagan groups, [[ethnicity]] is central to their religion, and some restrict membership to a single ethnic group.{{sfn|Strmiska|2005|p=17}} Some critics have described this approach as a form of racism.{{sfn|Strmiska|2005|p=17}} Other pagan groups allow people of any ethnicity, on the view that the gods and goddesses of a particular region can call anyone to their form of worship.{{sfn|Strmiska|2005|pp=17–18}} Some such groups feel a particular affinity for the pre-Christian belief systems of a particular region with which they have no ethnic link because they see themselves as [[reincarnation]]s of people from that society.{{sfn|Strmiska|2005|p=18}} There is greater focus on ethnicity within the pagan movements in continental Europe than within the pagan movements in North America and the British Isles.{{sfn|Strmiska|2005|pp=16–17}} Such ethnic paganisms have variously been seen as responses to concerns about foreign ideologies, [[globalization]], [[cosmopolitanism]], and anxieties about cultural erosion.{{sfn|Rountree|2015|p=5}}{{sfn|Strmiska|2005|p=47}}

Although they acknowledged that it was "a highly simplified model", Aitamurto and Simpson wrote that there was "some truth" to the claim that [[Left-wing politics|leftist]]-oriented forms of paganism were prevalent in North America and the British Isles while [[Right-wing politics|rightist]]-oriented forms of paganism were prevalent in Central and Eastern Europe.{{sfn|Aitamurto|Simpson|2013|p=2}} They noted that in these latter regions, pagan groups placed an emphasis on "the centrality of the nation, the ethnic group, or the tribe".{{sfn|Aitamurto|Simpson|2013|p=3}} Rountree wrote that it was wrong to assume that "expressions of Paganism can be categorized straight-forwardly according to region", but acknowledged that some regional trends were visible, such as the impact of [[Catholic Church|Catholicism]] on paganism in Southern Europe.{{sfn|Rountree|2015|p=10}}