Neopaganism in Hungary

This article is about neopaganism in Hungary. For the specific religion, see Hungarian Neopaganism.
A világfa (world tree) erected in Gödöllő, Pest, Budapest metropolis.

Neopaganism in Hungary (Hungarian: Újpogányság) is very diverse, with followers of the Hungarian Native Faith and of other religions, including Wiccans, Kemetics, Mithraics, Druids and Christopagans.[1]

Szilárdi (2006) describes the movement as a postmodern combination of ethnocentric linguistic, national, religious and occasional political patterns of identity. Interest in the reconstruction of an ethnic religion for the Hungarians manifested for the first time in the early 20th century.[2] A contribution to the popularisation of Pagan ideas in the Hungarian society was the tremendous success of the rock opera István, a király in 1983.[3]

  1. ^ Kolozsi 2012, p. 57
  2. ^ Koloszi 2012, p. 36-53
  3. ^ Rabinovitch and Lewis 2004, p. 183