heathenism

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Noun
  • All across Central Europe, a fascination with runes and folk magic aligns with both right-wing xenophobia and left-wing paganism.
    Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Up until the 5th century, these types of precious metal amulets typically exhibited influences from other faiths and belief systems, including Judaism and paganism.
    Tim Ryan, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Both discoveries date to the period when the Roman Empire was transitioning from polytheism to Christianity.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Religious history Fascinating finds related to religious history tell a story of diverse belief systems from the polytheism of the ancient Greeks and Romans to Buddhism and Christianity.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Both impulses ultimately derive, however, from his attempts to synthesize science, particularly evolution, with theology.
    Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 29 Jan. 2025
  • The lowest-paying positions are in theology and religion, which yield an average yearly salary of $38,710 and drew only 437 students for the year.
    Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Freud, too, proposed that Moses was an Egyptian prince who invented monotheism (or stole it from Akhenaten).
    Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Through it all, the rabbis and imam maintain faith in the ties that bound Judaism and Islam together: a common origin in the Middle East through Abraham; a tradition of strict monotheism emphasizing the oneness of God; a reverence for biblical and Quranic shared prophets from Isaac to Moses.
    Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
Noun
  • In 1809, Friedrich’s budding pantheism landed him in hot water.
    Zachary Fine, The New Yorker, 28 June 2024
  • Spinoza was infamous for his sometimes inscrutable variety of pantheism, in which God no longer sits outside Nature, paring his fingernails (James Joyce’s joke), but effectively is Nature, inextricable from it.
    James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
Noun
  • During the rise of the Nazis in the 1930s, several pastors and theologians joined forces to resist the influence of Nazi doctrine over German Protestant churches.
    Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Bothwell discussed various legal grounds to attack the project, from a health and safety perspective to home rule doctrine.
    Steven Mihailovich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2025
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