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Wikipedia, "Finnish Neopaganism"

Wikipedia, accessed 2026

A community-maintained tertiary reference on Finnish neopaganism, directly examined. Its strength is naming three organisations with three distinct registration dates and being honest that the historical record comes through later Christian writers rather than through practitioners' own voice; its limit is a Wikipedia community article rather than a Finnish religious studies monograph, which is why it sits at reliability tier three. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Assessment
Reliability Tier
3
Bare Wikipedia community article, tier 3, matching this corpus's settled precedent for this source class.
Notes
Wikipedia's article on Finnish neopaganism (Suomenusko), consulted 2026-08-13. Useful here for the early-twentieth-century Ukonusko precursor movement, the Association of Finnish Native Religion officially registered since 2002, the Pole Star Association (Taivaannaula ry) founded and registered in Turku in 2007, Karhun kansa officially registered in 2014 as the first neopagan association given organised-religious-community status in Finland, the midsummer toast to the thunder god Ukko, and its own statement that the primary sources on Finnish native culture were written by latter-era Christians rather than by practitioners themselves.
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Wikipedia contributors
Publisher
Wikipedia
Publication Year
2026
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_neopaganism
Source Type
reference
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Finnish, Languages

This source names Finnish directly: "tertiary reference on Finnish neopaganism, directly examined."

Source Wikipedia, "Finnish Neopaganism"Wikipedia contributors
Claims Backed By This Source (23 claims)

This source backs 23 claims across the atlas. As facts: 15 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 7 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

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  • Prayers, 14 claims: 7 well-attested, 7 general references.
  • Sources, 9 claims: 8 well-attested, 1 holds.
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