Paganism
Paganism - or more correctly Neo-Paganism, is a recent (post-World-War-II) revival of ancient mostly European and mostly pre-Christian religions. There is a strong emphasis on fertility religions and the female/Goddess principle.
Paganism Paganism is a general term which is usually understood as denoting any religious act, practice or ceremony which is not Christian. Anyone practicing paganism is usually known as a pagan.
Hellenic Neo-Paganism
"We are all Greeks"
Many Neo-Pagans were awakened to the old gods by an early encounter with Greek mythology, yet now they follow other traditions.
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Paganism
A generic term covering all the earth-centered religions. The term comes from the Latin, Pagani, referring to people of the fields.
Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.
The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, chapter 8 (1929)
Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.
Paganism is a Nature religion, rooted deep in the Earth, honoring the Gods and Goddesses, feeling the heartbeat of the Mother Earth, loving and honoring all of Her creatures. And now we have this wonderful new technology, along with computer graphics.
Neopaganism
A general term for a variety of "Aquarian Age" movements both organized and (usually) nonorganized, which have attempted to revive or recreate various forms of Paleopaganism in terms of modern humanistic ideas of personal growth needs.
Neo-paganism
Twentieth century phenomenon that has seen the revival of ancient Pagan religions, such as the Greek Mysteries, the Egyptian Mysteries, the Norse Religion of Asatru, Shamanism and .
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By 391, the Emperor Theodosius had reversed Diocletian's edict and commanded all paganism to be stamped out, signalling the end of the Museum.
Paganism: This is a broad, general term for nature-centered, polytheistic religions.
Pagan Rede/Wiccan Rede: Summed up as "An ye harm none, do what thou will".
The ante-Nicene period in the main was devoted to attacks upon paganism and to apologies and defenses of Christianity. The entire structure of pagan philosophy was assailed and the dictates of faith elevated above those of reason.
The practices themselves probably contain an element derived from an earlier paganism. But the people did not think of themselves as secret practitioners preserving an ancient form of paganism.
That did not rebound on Christianity to injure it, but it reacted on the ancient Paganism to destroy it. And that is what always happens, for truth cannot be killed by persecution; it is the persecutor who always, in the end, is slain.
He claimed that the religion, of which he was an initiate, was a modern survival of an old witchcraft religion, which had existed in secret for hundreds of years, originating in the pre-Christian Paganism of Europe.
 See also: Pagan, Spirit, World, Christ, Ritual
  
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