What is teh difference between paganism and wiccan?

Question

What is teh difference between paganism and wiccan?

Answer 1

yes

Answer 2

Wicca is a specific set of beliefs that existed in some form in Europe before Christianity. It has been expanded and modernised in a New Age/feminist kind of a way.

Pagan is a more general term that people apply to belief in gods, usually multiple gods, other than their own. Some people think of Hindus as pagans, though they believe in an ancient and highly developed religion.

Answer 3

Paganism is pretty much any religion that is not Judeo-Christian.  

Wiccanism is a combiunation of relgious practices by various pre-christian european cultures.  Gerald Gardner just took bits and pieces of things that interested him and made Wiccanism. Aleister Crowley was involved too a bit.

So paganism would included the actual old relgious beliefs of Europe while wiccanism is just a jumble of those by modern pagan want to be's.