World Druidry: A Globalizing Path of Nature Spirituality

What does it mean to be a Druid circa 2020 c.e.?- What do modern-day Druids believe?- What are their religious practices?- How does Druidry vary with geography? - How has Druidry evolved over time? - 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 often biased by ease-of-contact or Druidry group affiliation. The World Druidry Survey of 2018-2020 was the first large-scale global effort to collect interpret and learn from the stories of all 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 world in addition to 131 unaffiliated solitary practitioners. Their responses included thousands of pages of rich narrative data allowing for the use of robust mixed-methods analytic tools to paint a vivid picture of the contemporary religious tradition that is World Druidry.Here are their stories.