Is Pagan a religion or what ?

Question

Please describe briefly for my knowledge.

Answer 1

Paganism (from Latin paganus, meaning "a country dweller" or "civilian") is a blanket term which has come to connote a broad set of western spiritual or religious beliefs and practices of natural or polytheistic religions, as opposed to the Abrahamic monotheistic religions. "Pagan" is the usual translation of the Islamic term mushrik, which refers to 'one who worships something other than Allah'. Ethnologists do not use the term for these beliefs, which are not necessarily compatible with each other: more useful categories are shamanism, polytheism or animism. Often, the term has pejorative connotations, comparable to heathen, infidel and kafir (كافر) in Islam.

Answer 2

It depends on how you look at it. Some people view Pagans as all non Christians. The more common definition of the word Pagan refers to a collection of Earth Based religions that are for the most part Polytheistic.

Some common Pagan religions are Wicca, Druidism, Native American Shamanism, Asatru, etc. But there are literally thousands of different religions that can fall under this category. Much like Christianity has many denominations.

In short,Paganism is a religion,. A Pagan is someone who practices Paganism in some fashion.

Answer 3

Pagan or more correctly Neo-Pagan is an umbrella term for what I describe as nature based religions. This includes Wicca, Druidism, various sects of Witchcraft, etc.

A good book that covers Neo-Pagan groups is, "Drawing Down the Moon" By Margot Adler

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Answer 4

The term pagan means country folk. It refers to a simpler type of religious expression that has it roots in pre-Christian Gaul and England, Scotland, and Ireland. There are some, like myself, who trace the roots back to Egypt of antiquity. Yes, it is a spiritual belief in the "Old Ones."

Answer 5

I would say yes...pagans have beliefs. Anyone who believes in the trees, witches, wicans, stars, birds , the earth being alive and having a soul, socerery, astrology.

These are all pagan beliefs. Therefore, ig they agree on their beliefs and set up a "code" of these beliefs like a witches book of spells or something, then by definition it would be a religion.

Answer 6

Sure.

Paganism (from Latin paganus, meaning "a country dweller" or "civilian") is a blanket term which has come to connote a broad set of western spiritual or religious beliefs and practices of natural or polytheistic religions, as opposed to the Abrahamic monotheistic religions.

Answer 7

Paganism is many different cultural religions. There are many similarities as well as difference in each one. Greek "mythology" is one path of Paganism... Norse, or Asatru, is another path. And so on.

Answer 8

a Pagan is actually a person who is not a Christian, Muslim, or Jew, described as one without a religion.

Or it is a person who believes in many gods or no god at all.

Basically, these people got together and created the Pagan Religion.

Answer 9

yes Pagan is a religion, although it doesn't have a strict set of beliefs

Pagans try to get back in touch with the spirits of nature

Answer 10

Here I do not have to go into detail on here but this is a link that will give you the history and the time line

and it has been arround since the begging of time