Paganism

Noun

 * 1) Local religions practiced before the introduction of Christianity.
 * Recently converted societies often dealt harshly with signs of a return to paganism.
 * 1) A class of religions often associated with nature rituals.
 * While paganism is a broad term, most forms pay close attention to the lunar and solar cycles.

Related terms

 * pagan
 * neo-paganism

Adjectives for Paganism
aesthetic; poetic; devoted; honest; extreme.

Verbs for Paganism
convert from—; degenerate to—; denounce —; exterminate—; meddle in—; oppose—; practise—; relinquish—; revert to—; sink to—; succumb to—; —blends; —blinds; — destroys; —fancies; —fetters; —outrages; —sacrifices; —worships.

Thesaurus
Druidism, Gothicism, Parsiism, Sabaism, Zoroastrianism, age of ignorance, allotheism, animal worship, animatism, animism, barbarism, benightedness, benightment, dark, dark age, darkness, demonism, demonolatry, devil worship, fetishism, fire worship, heathendom, heathenism, heathenry, hero worship, iconoduly, iconolatry, idol worship, idolatrousness, idolatry, idolism, idolodulia, idolomancy, image worship, pagandom, paganry, phallic worship, phallicism, pyrolatry, savagery, snake worship, star worship, sun worship, tree worship, unenlightenment

Etymology
From paganismus, "heathenism", from paganus, "peasant, rural, rustic". The term was used as an insult by the early Christians to belittle what remained of the native religions.

Translations

 * Albanian: paganizëm
 * Arabic: وثنية
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri: bütpərəstlik
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: pakanuus
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: წარმართობა
 * German: Heidentum
 * Greek: παγανισμός


 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: pogányság
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ペイガニズム
 * Latvian: pagānisms
 * Lithuanian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: язычество
 * Samogitian:
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish: paganlık, paganizm
 * Uzbek: paganizm