2007-04-09 14:16:02 · 14 answers · asked by laceangel69 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
According to the Webster's dictionary, it is any religion that isn't Christian, Jewish, or Muslim. With this definition, it includes most of the Eastern religions.
In actually Paganism is a spirituality or religion that honors nature and its processes. It celebrates the turning of the year and the growing cycles. It has nothing to do with satan or anything evil.
Paganism is also a umbrella term that encompasses: Reconstructionism, all forms of Wicca, Asatru and Norse traditions, Celtic, Egyptian/Kemetic, Native American, Aztec/Inca, Germanic, Roman/Greek, Babylonian/Sumerian, and many more faiths and traditions.
2007-04-12 09:36:44 · answer #1 · answered by windstrm99 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pretty much any religions which aren't of the Abrahamic religions which are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, are considered to be "Pagan" religions. Basically it's an umbrella term for non Abrahamic religions. The word "Pagan" is meant really as "country dwellers" or "hicks" and was and is used as an insult.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/paganism.htm
2007-04-09 14:22:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Paganism is a Nature based religion. So any other religion that worships nature would be under the pagan umbrella.
2007-04-09 14:27:04 · answer #3 · answered by Larry S 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What reason would you ask this? It does sound a little insulting as a person noted in an earlier response "I would never use this as an insult." I am hoping that you are trying to satisfy your curiousity dear, and not looking for a way to insult someone. If so, then generally a pagan is someone who worships multiple gods (like the god and goddess worshipped by the celts). That does not make these religions god-less as we so very often hear in our society today.
2007-04-09 14:21:20 · answer #4 · answered by swarr2001 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Usually polytheistic (or sometimes pantheist) nature-based religions, like Asatru, celtic polytheism, germanic polytheism, slavic polytheism, the beliefs of ancient Romans and Greeks, native american Indian beliefs, native southern american Indian beliefs, ancient egyptian polytheism...
Nowadays, a whole lot of neo-pagan religions have sprouted, like Wicca, different reconstructionisms like celtic reconstructionism (druidism), different goddess worships...
Basically, any polytheistic nature-based system of beliefs.
2007-04-09 21:27:02 · answer #5 · answered by Ymmo the Heathen 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Theistic Satanism [including Demonolatry], Asatru, Hellenismos, Kemeticism, The Aztec one, Celtic Reconstruction, Thelema [Though it's more a philosophy], Hinduism, Shinto [and other animisms], and many others, including Wicca.
It's not an elite club.
2007-04-09 14:26:09 · answer #6 · answered by Squishy Khrysorrhapis 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Those that call themselves "Pagan." And I would never use that term as an insult.
2007-04-09 14:18:57 · answer #7 · answered by Heron By The Sea 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Any religion that honors false gods and puts the devil in a higher position.
2007-04-09 14:22:13 · answer #8 · answered by JJ 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Polytheism, shamanism, pantheism, or animism.
2007-04-11 08:14:17 · answer #9 · answered by Isabella 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I AM A PAGAN INFIDEL KAFFIR!!!
because I am not Muslim. And I love every second of my existence.
2007-04-09 14:20:17 · answer #10 · answered by icarus p 1 · 1⤊ 3⤋