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Definitions of paganism in various dictionaries:
noun - any of various religions other than Christianity or Judaism or Islamism
noun - an irreligious attitude
PAGANISM - Paganism is a term first used in the fourth century by early Christians for populations of the Roman Empire who practiced polytheism, either because ...
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any of various religions other than Christianity or Judaism or Islamism |
A religion other than one of the main world religions, specifically a non-Christian or pre-Christian religion. |
Indigenous and polytheistic religions. |
A class of religions often associated with nature rituals. |
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Paganism is a term first used in the fourth century by early Christians for populations of the Roman Empire who practiced polytheism, either because they were increasingly rural and provincial relative to the Christian population or because they were not milites Christi (soldiers of Christ). Alternate terms in Christian texts for the same group were hellene, gentile, and heathen.Pagan and paganism were pejorative terms for the same polytheistic group, implying its inferiority. Paganism has broadly connoted the "religion of the peasantry", and for much of its history was a derogatory term. Both during and after the Middle Ages, pagan was a pejorative term that was applied to any non-Abrahamic or unfamiliar religion, and the term presumed a belief in false god(s).There has been much scholarly debate as to the origin of the term pagan. In the 19th century, paganism was adopted as a self-descriptor by members of various artistic groups inspired by the ancient world. In the 20th century, it |