Paganism  

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Triumph of Christianity by Tommaso Laureti (1530-1602), ceiling painting in the Sala di Constantino, Vatican Palace. Images like this one celebrate the destruction of ancient 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 spiritual or cultic practices or beliefs of any folk religion, and of historical and contemporary polytheistic religions in particular.

See also

• Animism
• Folk religion
• Idolatry
• List of Pagans
• Myth and ritual
• Mythology
• Neopaganism
• Polytheism
• Religion and mythology
• Shamanism
• Wicca