A Germanic Paganism revival?

Could Germanic Paganism ever make a comeback in Europe post 1800 - maybe during the rise of romanticism?

And how successful could it ever be?
 
Well, in a way you had a pagan comeback with Hitler and nazism and all their delirium about pre judeo-christianism "pure" german religions.
 

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Well, in a way you had a pagan comeback with Hitler and nazism and all their delirium about pre judeo-christianism "pure" german religions.

No. National/Cultural/Racial Occultism sure, but to consider it "pagan revival" is ludicrous.

Your best bet is to have Anglo-Saxons re-paganized under Danelaw or other Norse conquests of England.
 
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Could Germanic Paganism ever make a comeback in Europe post 1800 - maybe during the rise of romanticism?

And how successful could it ever be?

Maybe if you can make the Enlightenment period even more virulently anticlerical and irreligious. with Christianity as a whole forced to fade away in Europe, other things will take its place.
 
There was a Germanic pagan revival in the 19th century. It was variously referred to as Ariosophy, Götterglaube, Folktroth, Deutscher Glaube, Armanentum and a host of other terms. It is hard to estimate exactly how many people were involved since its edges were just as fuzzy as those of 'neopaganism' are today, but we can surely put a minimum estimate at tens of thousands. In a society that was still institutionally dominated by established Christian orthodoxy, that is a pretty remarkable development.

I don't think more is plausible. If 19th-century Germans needed spiritual fervour, they could get it from nationalism directly, without the intermediation of religion. Those who were religiously inclined mostly would have found it easier to stay within the bounds of tradition. And to most working people, the whole thing was just bourgeois being silly. If you could get working-class paganism going, you'd be on to something, but I fail to see how. It was never all that popular.
 
No. National/Cultural/Racial Occultism sure, but to consider it "pagan revival" is ludicrous.

Your best bet is to have Anglo-Saxons re-paganized under Danelaw or other Norse conquests of England.

Not at all, there were some definite Pagan elements to Ariosophy and if you look at what they wanted and what the Nazis actually did you shall see a real connection.

But for them to really go full bore you would probably need a more serious 19th century Pagan revival somehow and then this going mainstream in the Weimar period.
 
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