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Recent Examples of paganism
To Europeans, the binary of civility and savagery paralleled that of Christianity and paganism.
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Literary Hub,
25 Feb. 2026
Sitting atop one of the seven hills overlooking the city, the site is like an archaeological mosaic where fragments of paganism, Christianity and Islam from different eras and empires coexist.
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NPR,
26 Nov. 2025
Groups like the English Puritans deemed the holiday as satanic due to its relations with paganism and witchcraft.
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Alexis Simmerman,
Austin American Statesman,
31 Oct. 2025
In all of the courses, the pedagogy is an awkward pastiche of traditions, combining Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Slavic paganism, Siberian shamanism, and Asian spiritual practices, spiked with elements of Jungian and American pop psychology.
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Julia Ioffe,
New Yorker,
19 Oct. 2025
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Literary Hub,
25 Feb. 2026
Sitting atop one of the seven hills overlooking the city, the site is like an archaeological mosaic where fragments of paganism, Christianity and Islam from different eras and empires coexist.
—
NPR,
26 Nov. 2025
Groups like the English Puritans deemed the holiday as satanic due to its relations with paganism and witchcraft.
—
Alexis Simmerman,
Austin American Statesman,
31 Oct. 2025
In all of the courses, the pedagogy is an awkward pastiche of traditions, combining Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Slavic paganism, Siberian shamanism, and Asian spiritual practices, spiked with elements of Jungian and American pop psychology.
—
Julia Ioffe,
New Yorker,
19 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for paganism
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The faith codes included dozens of highly specific Christian denominations, as well as groups such as Ásatrú, which honors Norse gods; Eckankar, which emphasizes soul travel, dreams, and past-life study; and the Troth, a form of Germanic polytheism.
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As Jewish identity crystallized during and after the Babylonian exile, polytheism remained an enduring temptation.
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Members believe preserving the older form of the Mass — commonly called the Traditional Latin Mass — is essential to preserving traditional Catholic theology and ethics, said Matthew Siebert, a philosophy professor at Belmont Abbey College.
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While theology and ministry studies were designated as nonprofessional, the master of divinity degree often pursued by eventual pastors or ministers does retain professional status.
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For all its moral and political weight, monotheism is surprisingly hard to pin down.
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Stasevska was born in 1984, the same year that Glass’ hypnotic, ritualistic opera, about an Egyptian pharaoh who dared to push monotheism onto his polytheistic culture, debuted in Stuttgart, Germany.
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In 1809, Friedrich’s budding pantheism landed him in hot water.
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If anyone is wondering, stoicism and pantheism are my preferred lenses through to view the world.
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But the revered text affirmed a generic theism – belief in a creator god – without mentioning Jesus or Christianity.
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And that’s just for starters on theism of some Founding Fathers.
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Questioning, if not rejecting, established Christian doctrine, Ahab also comes to regard Moby Dick as the outward and visible sign, the physical embodiment of the indifference or, worse, utter malignity inherent in the universe.
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Deployment and engagement decisions, however, will remain under human control and within existing doctrine and legal frameworks.
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This vague gesture in the direction of deism has no antecedent in the book, no moral or theological trajectory to make Bambi’s insight meaningful or satisfying.
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Those intuitions usually commended a staid deism and scorn for those whose beliefs extended any further.
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Weak leaders try to resolve those tensions by picking one side and turning it into dogma.
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Far more valuable would be a pivot by the regime’s leadership away from some of the dogmas of its past, and toward reform.
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“Paganism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paganism. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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