The Williams Scale of Attitude toward Paganism: Development and Application among British Pagans

This article arises out of recognition of a dearth of information about the concepts of prayer and worship among those who identify as Pagan in the UK. According to the Office for National Statistics, this is not an insignificant proportion of the population, with 31,000 people identifying as Pagan and 7,000 as Wiccan in 2004 (Office for National Statistics 2004), out of a population of just under 60 million (Office for National Statistics 2011). This may be related to the Census data for the UK 1 , which reported that Christians made up 71.6% of the population, Muslims 2.7%, Jewish people. 0.5%, Buddhists 0.3% and those of no reported religion, 15.5% (Office for National Statistics 2004). Hutton suggests there may be 250,000 Neo-Pagan adherents in the UK, roughly equivalent to the Hindu population (Hutton 1999). Jensen and Thompson suggest that Wicca and NeoPaganism in general is one of the fastest growing alternative spiritualities (Jensen and Thompson 2008).

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Pagan Prayer and Worship: A Qualitative Study of Perceptions

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Goodall

2014

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The Williams Scale of Attitude toward Paganism: Development and Application among British Pagans

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