{"id":114,"date":"2004-02-12T04:48:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-12T04:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=114"},"modified":"2004-02-12T04:48:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-12T04:48:00","slug":"114","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Pagans in Canada<\/strong><\/p>\n

Canada’s census asks questions about religion, and in 2001, slightly more than 21,000 Canadians (median age, 30.4) reported themselves as Pagan and\/or Wicca. Of course, defining “Pagan” broadly, I would include the followers of “Aboriginal spirituality” as well, which would more than double that number. Statistics are here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The obvious question is, how many felt constrained not to answer the question honestly?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pagans in Canada Canada’s census asks questions about religion, and in 2001, slightly more than 21,000 Canadians (median age, 30.4) reported themselves as Pagan and\/or Wicca. Of course, defining “Pagan” broadly, I would include the followers of “Aboriginal spirituality” as well, which would more than double that number. Statistics are here. The obvious question is, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-114","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":280,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=280","url_meta":{"origin":114,"position":0},"title":"What do Pagan scholars do?\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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