Otherkin and Therian Spiritualities
Modern Spiritual Movements Umbrella tradition
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Neutral catalog summary
About this record
Otherkin and Therian Spiritualities is cataloged as an Umbrella tradition within Modern Spiritual Movements. Its public geographic context is “Global, transnational, diaspora, textual, or doctrinal context; no single country” and its period or origin is “1990s–present, with earlier antecedents.” It is associated with the parent tradition “Online identity communities, contemporary spirituality, and fandom-adjacent subcultures.”
This summary is assembled only from the record fields shown below. It does not add ritual instructions, doctrinal claims or inferred geography.
Record fields
- Alternate / historical names
- Otherkin and Therian Spiritualities; Otherkin; therianthropy; therian communities
- Parent tradition
- Online identity communities, contemporary spirituality, and fandom-adjacent subcultures
- Public geographic context
- Global, transnational, diaspora, textual, or doctrinal context; no single country
- Period / origin
- 1990s–present, with earlier antecedents
- Living / historical status
- Active and internally diverse
- Access / protocol
- Open / public
- Evidence status
- Directly cited
Geography
CandidateGlobal, transnational, diaspora, textual, or doctrinal context; no single country
This record also has global, transnational, diaspora, textual or doctrinal context and is not reduced to one country.
Public geographic context is limited to country level or broader. A documented site may still be named as the record’s public identity, but no subnational location field or coordinates are published.
Where to read more
A citation identifies a source to consult; it does not establish every claim in this record.
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Stable attribution
Cite this record
Otherkin and Therian Spiritualities. Atlas of Religious and Esoteric Lineages, record 0728. https://esotericlineages.com/entry/0728
Created and maintained by Ayara and Kyle Jonathan B@KJB_and_AYARA · https://x.com/KJB_and_AYARA