Paganism | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-03-26

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00:02:22 1 Nomenclature and etymology
00:02:32 1.1 Pagan
00:07:19 1.2 Hellene
00:10:30 1.3 Heathen
00:11:41 2 Definition
00:14:59 3 Perception
00:16:09 4 History
00:16:18 4.1 Bronze Age to Early Iron Age
00:16:41 4.2 Classical antiquity
00:17:34 4.2.1 Late Antiquity and Christianization
00:19:18 4.2.2 Muhammad and Islamization in Arabia
00:20:16 4.3 Early Modern period
00:21:12 4.4 Romanticism
00:22:56 5 Modern Paganism
00:27:59 6 Ethnic religions of pre-Christian Europe
00:28:11 7 See also



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Paganism (from classical Latin pāgānus "rural, rustic", later "civilian"), is a term first used in the fourth century by early Christians for people in the Roman Empire who practiced polytheism. This was 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. Ritual sacrifice was an integral part of ancient Graeco-Roman religion and was regarded as an indication of whether a person was pagan or Christian.Paganism was originally a pejorative and derogatory term for polytheism, implying its inferiority. Paganism has broadly connoted the "religion of the peasantry", During and after the Middle Ages, the term paganism was applied to any non-Abrahamic or unfamiliar religion, and the term presumed a belief in false god(s). Most modern pagan religions existing today - Modern Paganism, or Neopaganism -
express a world view that is pantheistic, polytheistic or animistic; but some are  monotheistic.The origin of the application of the term pagan to polytheism is debated. 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 came to be applied as a self-descriptor by practitioners of Modern Paganism, Neopagan movements and Polytheistic reconstructionists. Modern pagan traditions often incorporate beliefs or practices, such as nature worship, that are different from those in the largest world religions.Contemporary knowledge of old pagan religions comes from several sources, including anthropological field research records, the evidence of archaeological artifacts, and the historical accounts of ancient writers regarding cultures known to Classical antiquity.