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Building Pagan Community

Purpose

The purpose of this site is to be a resource for people interested in building Pagan Community or just hosting Community Rituals.

Community Ritual

There is no such thing as a "generic" ritual. All rituals reflect the tradition they came from. What most American Neopagans mean by a "generic" ritual is a standard American Eclectic Wiccan ritual.

Pre Rit Rap What to say before Ritual.
Large vs Small Ritual
Facilatators Handbook How to organize a large group open Wiccan style ritual.
- Large Group Ritual Form This is a handy form for keeping track of your ritual plans. It works with the Facilatators Handbook.
Small Open Ritual Form
Some essays I wrote for a local list
- Community Ritual
- Crisis and Faith
Pagan Festival Camping Check List

Educational Fliers

Fliers that can by handed out are very usefull in trying to educate the public about our beliefs. The Pagan Pride Project came to the same conclusion and set up a page of Resource that their members have permission to use.

Below are some are fliers I have written myself. You have my permission to copy and distribute them as long as you don't change anything, or charge money for them. You may add you local group's contact information but do not remove any of the other information.

Government

Neo-Pagans are generally anti-authoritarian and therefor anti-government. This is unfortunate because the only way to ensure a democratic government it to make one deliberately. Default governments are never democracies.

Here are some recomended books on government in religious communities.

Isaac Bonewits' reviews Haugk's "Antagonists in the Church" This is a very important book that every pagan should read. Buy it from Isaac's site or buy it from right here but get it and read it before you start complaining about "politics" in the community. It will help protect you from the sort of people who will tear your community apart from the inside.
buy "Antagonists in the Church"

Here are some sample govenment documents.

Constitution
Meeting Proceedures
Meeting Roles
Attendance Records

Usefull Projects for building local communities

Related Groups

There are several Non-Pagan communities and oragnizations that overlap with the Pagan Community. These groups are not Pagan in themselves but many Pagans belong to these groups. Pagan can be found at their events and they can be found at ours. As near as we can figure out the common factors are intelegence, creativity, and imagination.

Role Playing Games such as:
- Dungeons and Dragons
- Vampire: the Maskerade
- and any other L.A.R.P live action role playing gaming group
Historical Recreationists such as:
- The SCA The Society for Creative Anacronism is not a Pagan organization but there are many Pagans in it. It is not unusual for college student SCA gruops to help start Pagan study groups or vice versa.
- Ren Fairs are also popular.
Computer Programers (Hackers) see also: Techno Pagans
Science Fiction Fans

History of the Alliance Community