heathenism

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Noun
  • Leland presented European material as the survival of an ancient pagan cult—moreover, a paganism that had been demonized by Christianity.
    Angelica Frey, JSTOR Daily, 18 Apr. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • The Pope's polytheism places him among the people of Hell.
    Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Both discoveries date to the period when the Roman Empire was transitioning from polytheism to Christianity.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • In a broader political sense, CREC theology includes the belief that the establishment clause of the Constitution does not require a separation of church and state.
    Samuel Perry, The Conversation, 20 June 2025
  • Tuesday night should have been another chapter in his legendary theology.
    Troy Renck, Denver Post, 14 May 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
  • 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
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
  • The substantive parts of the state's Anti-SLAPP laws would survive and be utilized under the Erie doctrine.
    Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 21 June 2025
  • Clarkson said the institute also promoted religious doctrines that were considered unusual at the time of its founding, in 1970.
    Odette Yousef, NPR, 21 June 2025
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“Heathenism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heathenism. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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