23. What is the Difference between Druidism and Druidry?
Pagan Religions in Five Minutes - Suzanne Owen
Jennifer Uzzell [+ ]
Pagan Federation
Jennifer Uzzell (PhD, Durham University) is the education and youth manager for the Pagan Federation and senior examiner in religious studies at both GCSE and A level with a major awarding body and was head of religious education at a number of schools for many years.
Description
Druidism was the more common term in the early 20th century, mainly referring to fraternal organisations modelled on freemasonry, with connotations of being a unified system. These Fraternal Druid groups are one type of modern Druidry and Cultural Druid groups is another, such as the Gorsedd of the Bards of Wales. Religious or spiritual Druidry, a third type, emerged in the twentieth century and is more fluid.