Nature religions are growing in Australia – though witchcraft was illegal in some territories just 10 years ago
- Written by: Brendan C. Walsh, Sessional Academic, The University of Queensland
Mallory Johndrow/Unsplash, CC BYNature religions, commonly described as Paganism (or neo-Paganism), are growing in Australia. In the last Census, 33,148 people claimed affiliation with a nature religion: including Animism, Druidism, and the many traditions of Wicca, the most practised Pagan pathway.
Thirty years earlier, just 4,353 Australians put...