A January 2019 Wild Hunt article on US Pagan population estimates, reporting that the 2008 American Religious Identification Survey (Trinity College) found about 342,000 US adults identifying as Wiccan and a further 340,000 as Pagan, a combined 682,000, up 148.9 percent from the 2001 wave, the last year for which ARIS collected this data before the survey series ended.
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A specialist news and analysis outlet covering modern Paganism and Wicca since 2004, edited to journalistic standards; used here only for its report of the 2008 American Religious Identification Survey's own figures (Trinity College, researchers Barry Kosmin and Ariela Keysar), which it relays and contextualizes against the 2001 wave rather than originating itself, read in full directly from wildhunt.org. Citation
PublisherThe Wild Hunt
Publication Year2019
URLhttps://wildhunt.org/2019/01/estimating-growing-number-of-us-pagans.html
Source Typejournalism
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- Religions, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.
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