A World Religions and Spirituality Project (Virginia Commonwealth University) reference article on Asatru in Iceland, tracing Asatruarfelagid's registered membership from fewer than 100 through most of 1972 to 1992, to 280 in 2000, 879 in 2005, 1,402 in 2010 and 4,473 in 2019, the last figure cited to Statistics Iceland's (Hagstofa Islands) population by parish registry release.
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Citation
PublisherWorld Religions and Spirituality Project, Virginia Commonwealth University
URLhttps://wrldrels.org/2020/08/02/asatru-iceland/
Source Typereference article
Assessment
Reliability Tier2
An academic reference project's article compiling Statistics Iceland's own registered membership figures for Asatruarfelagid across two decades rather than the primary registry release itself; a credible institutional secondary account of a named government data series. Cross-Tradition Connections
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This source names Iceland directly: "reference article on Asatru in Iceland, tracing Asatruarfelagid's registered membership from fewer than 100 through most of 1972 to 1992, to 280 in 2000, 879 in 2005, 1,402 in 2010 and 4,473 in..."
This source names Virginia directly: "Religions and Spirituality Project (Virginia Commonwealth University) reference article on Asatru in Iceland, tracing Asatruarfelagid's registered membership from fewer than 100 through most of 1972..."
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