Paganism
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| + | [[Image:Tommaso.Laureti.Triumph.of.Christianity.jpg|right|thumb|200px|''"Triumph of Christianity"'' by [[Tommaso Laureti]] ([[1530]]-[[1602]]), ceiling painting in the [[Sala di Constantino]], [[Vatican City|Vatican Palace]]. Images like this one celebrate the destruction of ancient [[Paganism|pagan]] culture and the victory of Christianity.]] | ||
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| '''Paganism''' (from [[Latin]] ''paganus'', meaning "an old [[country]] [[dweller]], [[rustic]]") is a term which, from a Western perspective, has come to connote a broad set of [[spiritualism|spiritual]] or [[ritual|cultic]] practices or beliefs of any [[folk religion]], and of historical and contemporary [[Polytheism|polytheistic]] religions in particular.{{GFDL}} | '''Paganism''' (from [[Latin]] ''paganus'', meaning "an old [[country]] [[dweller]], [[rustic]]") is a term which, from a Western perspective, has come to connote a broad set of [[spiritualism|spiritual]] or [[ritual|cultic]] practices or beliefs of any [[folk religion]], and of historical and contemporary [[Polytheism|polytheistic]] religions in particular.{{GFDL}} | ||
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Paganism (from Latin paganus, meaning "an old country dweller, rustic") is a term which, from a Western perspective, has come to connote a broad set of spiritual or cultic practices or beliefs of any folk religion, and of historical and contemporary polytheistic religions in particular.
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