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  2. Paganism - Wikipedia

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    Paganism has broadly connoted the "religion of the peasantry". [1] [5] During and after the Middle Ages, the term paganism was applied to any non-Christian religion, and the term presumed a belief in "false gods". [6] [7] The origin of the application of the term "pagan" to polytheism is debated. [8]

  3. Polytheistic reconstructionism - Wikipedia

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    Linzie (2004) enumerates the difference between modern reconstructionist polytheism, such as modern Hellenismos or Nova Roma, and "classical" paganism as found in eighteenth to mid-twentieth century movements, including Germanic mysticism, early Neodruidism and Wicca. Aspects of the former, not found in the latter, are as follows:

  4. Anglo-Saxon paganism - Wikipedia

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    The right half of the front panel of the 7th-century Franks Casket, depicting the Anglo-Saxon (and wider Germanic) legend of Wayland the Smith. Anglo-Saxon paganism, sometimes termed Anglo-Saxon heathenism, Anglo-Saxon pre-Christian religion, Anglo-Saxon traditional religion, or Anglo-Saxon polytheism refers to the religious beliefs and practices followed by the Anglo-Saxons between the 5th ...

  5. Polytheism - Wikipedia

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    Polytheism is the belief in or worship of more than one god. [1] [2] [3] According to Oxford Reference, it is not easy to count gods, and so not always obvious whether an apparently polytheistic religion, such as Chinese Folk Religions, is really so, or whether the apparent different objects of worship are to be thought of as manifestations of a singular divinity. [1]

  6. Pagan Theology - Wikipedia

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    Pagan Theology: Paganism as a World Religion is a taxonomical study of various world religions which argues for a new definition of the word "paganism". It was written by American religious studies scholar Michael York of Bath Spa University and first published by New York University Press in 2003.

  7. Religion in ancient Rome - Wikipedia

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    This was the context for Rome's conflict with Christianity, which Romans variously regarded as a form of atheism and novel superstitio, while Christians considered Roman religion to be paganism. Ultimately, Roman polytheism was brought to an end with the adoption of Christianity as the official religion of the empire. [citation needed]

  8. Hellenism (modern religion) - Wikipedia

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    Another more general name for this religion is Hellenic polytheism or paganism. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] This term is used most often outside of Greece. Some academics use the term 'ancient Greek religion' as a catch-all term in Greece, in order to differentiate it from the Orthodox religion which is also sometimes presented as the 'national religion'. [ 6 ]

  9. Modern paganism - Wikipedia

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    [224] [228] According to Kaplan, these adepts occupy the "most remote corners" of modern paganism. [229] The lines between this form of modern paganism and Nazism are "extremely thin" [230] because its adherents praise Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, [230] claim that the "white race" is threatened with extinction by the efforts of a Jewish world ...