Polytheism

• Polytheism is a religious ideology founded on the acceptance of multiple deities. These include Celtic polytheism, the Greek pantheon, Roman pantheon or Norse pantheon. Modern polytheistic religions adopted historical perceptions of polytheism and use a number of those original religious practices. These include historical prayers and the observance of the original holy days dedicated to their deities. Religious worship is often limited to a select few deities, while keeping an open reverence for all other deities from the pantheon.
  
  

Ethnic Religions

• Ethnic religions are older religious ideals that are associated with a pre-Christian period in various areas of the world. These include religious ideals such as African traditional religion. Ethnic religions work to reinvigorate the original religious ideals of these lost cultures, relying on modern research for an understanding of much of their own history. Much like the polytheistic religions, ethnic religions often follow numerous deities, but they root their reverence for these ideals in a sense of ethnic connection. These religions also have their own unique methods of worship, such as the African traditional religion's reverence for the beating of drums as a symbol for the beating human heart and the origin of life.
  
  

Wicca

• Followers of the Wicca religion suggest that their religious ideals stem from a pre-Christian religious perspective. Support for the Wicca religion as a duotheism --- a religion based on a reverence for two deities, the female goddess and the male god --- increased in the mid-20th century. Wiccan worship is often referred to as witchcraft and has strong ties to earlier shamanistic religions that revere spirits and believe in a connection between the divine world and the natural world. Actual Wiccan religious practices vary widely from group to group, with certain practicing groups chanting as a form of prayer and others preferring more private prayers.
  
  

Naturalism

• "Naturalism" is both a general term that coincides with nearly all forms of paganism and an individual religious ideology under the pagan name. As a general term, naturalism refers to a respect and reverence for nature. As a specific term, naturalism is a pagan religion that reveres nature as its own divinity and holds the cycle of life as an important religious ideology. Naturalistic worship occurs away from urban environments, often in places where religious followers can experience a sense of natural peace and enjoy the comforts of nature.