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Brendan C. Walsh, Sessional Academic, The University of Queensland

Nature religions are growing in Australia – though witchcraft was illegal in some territories just 10 years ago

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Nature 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 down Paganism as their religion. Affiliation with Christianity has decreased over that 30-year period.

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