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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Robert Booth, Carmen Aguilar García and Pamela Duncan

Shamanism, pagans and wiccans: trends from the England and Wales census

People celebrating the summer solstice, a pagan festival day, at Stonehenge in 2019
People celebrating the summer solstice, a pagan festival day, at Stonehenge in 2019. Photograph: Martin Dalton/Rex/Shutterstock

1) Shamanism is on the rise

Shamanism is expanding faster than any other religion, with the number of people saying they practise it rising from 650 in 2011 to 8,000 in 2021 in England and Wales. The result might prove controversial, as the Shamanism UK website asserts “it is not a religion, more an authentic expression of mankind’s spirituality”.

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