Add Your Voice to the Pagan Census
Pagan scholar Helen Berger, co-author of “Voices from the Pagan Census: A National Survey of Witches and Neo-Pagans in the United States”, has announced that she and fellow researchers James R. Lewis and Henrik Bogdan are revisiting the Pagan Census project. The Pagan Census was first initiated nearly twenty years ago, and compiled data from thousands of modern Pagans to give a fascinating snapshot of our communities during Paganism’s meteoric rise in the 1990s. Now, in an age of blogs and instant communications, an update is underway to compare and contrast just how much we’ve changed.
“A number of scholars have noted that it would be helpful to have a follow-up of that survey to see if and how the community has changed or remained the same. The survey that follows uses many, although not all of the same questions that were in the original survey to provide that comparison. There are also new questions, for instance about the Internet, something that was of little interest 20 years ago but is now, and some from other studies, that again permit a comparison. This has resulted in the survey being somewhat long–we appreciate your taking the time to complete it.”
I urge all my readers who identify in any way with the modern Pagan/Heathen movement to participate in this census and spread the word to everyone you know. The more respondents the census has, the more accurate the data. You can find it, here. You can be sure that I will be paying attention to this renewed project as it goes forward, and will keep you appraised of any updates or results.
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I think this may be the first (non field-specific) survey ever I've seen where it specified under occupation "librarian or archivist." This greatly pleased me!
Thanks for the heads-up, Jason; I've just completed the survey.
LOL…. ahhh, pagans. It's ironic that I know more pagan librarians than I know librarians who are "people of the book".
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Not section M — section IV, sub-section M. Sorry for the mistake.
i am proud to say i am , thank the GODS we finaly have an op to be free !
I also evangelized (LOL) this survey everywhere I could think of that didn't already have an announcement.
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Why bother trying to answer, in advance, stupid questions that would only be posed by those who no matter what answer was given, would still feel paganism was evil?
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this sounds like an amazing project… I remember filling out this survey at a psychic fair way back when… I always wondered if they would ever do a follow up… and now here it is.
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