Druidry is to become the first pagan practice to be given official recognition as a religion.
The Charity Commission has accepted that druids’ worship of natural spirits could be seen as religious activity.
The Druid Network’s charitable status entitles it to tax breaks, but the organisation says it does not earn enough to benefit from this.
The commission says the network’s work in promoting druidry as a religion is in the public interest.
The use of Stonehenge by Druids is unfair: it predates this religion by many centuries. Since there’s been no continuous practice of “Druidry” this “revival” is as contrived as wicca.
I would think that “Druidry” would be a collective noun describing the universe of Druids (a “Druid” being an individual of that persuasion). The religion (if that’s what it is) perhaps should be called “Druidism.”
Good news for the Archdruid!