Neo-völkisch movements forms and esoteric themes, so that neo-"völkisch" currents often have the character of new religious movements. Included under the neo-"völkisch" umbrella are movements ranging from conservative revolutionary schools of thought ("Nouvelle Droite", European New Right, Evolian Traditionalism) to white supremacist and white separatist interpretations of Christianity, pantheism and paganism (Christian Identity, Creativity Movement, Cosmotheism, Nordic racial paganism) to Neo-Nazi subcultures (Esoteric Hitlerism, Nazi Satanism, National Socialist black metal). According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, only pagan-type groups are recognized as "Neo-Volkisch", excluding Christian Identity. Among the terms used are Nazi Satanism and Fascist Satanism. Sometimes these groups self-identify as
Neo-Nazi marches in Dresden and Wunsiedel were successfully blocked by anti-fascist protestors or forbidden by the authorities. The annual marches in Dresden had grown to an important event for the Nazi scene in Germany. On this day the numerous divisions in the scene and its problems were forgotten and the scene could see itself as powerful. Through commemorating those who died in the 1945 bombing of Dresden, a positive reference to National Socialism could be established to strengthen the own Nazi identity. In 2007 neo-Nazis from the "Freie Kräfte" criticized the remembering as ritualized and hollow and organized their own regionally planned and mobilized