What does it mean to be a Druid, circa 2020 c.e.?
• What do modern-day Druids consider?
• What are their religious practices?
• How does Druidry vary with geography?
• How has Druidry evolved through the years?
• What defines it as a religious tradition?
In the past, the answers to these questions have, of necessity, taken the form of educated guesses based on limited data, regularly biased by ease-of-contact, or Druidry group affiliation. The World Druidry Survey of 2018-2020 used to be the first, large-scale global effort to collect, interpret, and learn from the stories of all of the practicing Druids of the world. The questionnaire included 189 items, organized into 42 sets of questions, including 18 open-ended essay questions. It probed into details of modern Druids’ physical, social, and cultural environments; their ethnicities; their theological beliefs, ritual practices, and celebrated holidays; and the factors that influenced their development as Druids.
Completed surveys were returned by 725 Druids, in six languages, from 34 nations, representing 147 Druid groups from around the globe, along with 131 unaffiliated, solitary practitioners. Their responses included thousands of pages of rich, narrative data, making an allowance for the usage of robust, mixed-methods analytic tools to paint a vivid picture of the up to date religious tradition that is World Druidry.
Here are their stories.
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