Survey: Wicca Unknown to Majority Of Americans

January 26, 2009

Author: Jennifer Riley

Source: The Christian Post

http://christianpost.com/Society/Polls_reports/2009/01/survey-wicca-unknown-to-majority-of-americans-26/

Although some say Wicca is the fastest growing religion in the United States, most Americans still say they have never heard of the term before, according to a new survey released Monday.

Slightly more than half of Americans (55 percent) say they have not heard of Wicca, a national survey conducted by The Barna Group found. Among those that have heard of the religious group, most have an unfavorable view (52 percent) of it.

Those most likely to hold a “very unfavorable” view of Wicca were found among residents of the South and Midwest (52 percent of whom had a very unfavorable opinion); born-again Christians (67 percent); and socio-political conservatives (61 percent).

Two-thirds (62 percent) of those who have heard of Wicca described it as an organized form of witchcraft. A much smaller percentage of Americans think Wicca is a form of Satanism (7 percent) or a religious cult (7 percent).