Question by Green Pagan 4.0: What are some religions and spiritualities that would be considered “Pagan”?
Where does the definition begin?
Many people think of Pagans as simply “Wiccan” but the neoPagan movement is also closely related to Asatru, Native American beliefs and others.
What do you consider to be “Pagan”?
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Answer by SoulSearchingDaughter
Anything outside of the big 3
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the rural polytheistic religions of rome ….
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I think the general consciences is any religion or lack thereof besides Christianity>>>>Broad spectrum there
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I’d say just about everything on these reading lists qualify as ‘pagan’ one way or another:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/syltguides/fullview/RB4P74VHK8R1/ref=cm_sylt_byauthor_title_full_29
http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/syltguides/fullview/3QZW5UYFDUQT0/ref=cm_sylt_byauthor_title_full_22
http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/syltguides/fullview/7T9VOHG6OI7W/ref=cm_sylt_byauthor_title_full_28
http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/syltguides/fullview/GFSGL8RHA11L/ref=cm_sylt_byauthor_title_full_36
http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/syltguides/fullview/M3AIWK0GE7OU/ref=cm_sylt_byauthor_title_full_33
http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/syltguides/fullview/9MW67PBJTMT5/ref=cm_sylt_byauthor_title_full_5
http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/syltguides/fullview/3VTH1YW5N9MVD/ref=cm_sylt_byauthor_title_full_14
http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/syltguides/fullview/3OSL594N167JX/ref=cm_sylt_byauthor_title_full_37
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that completely depends on what religion your from, first of all you must understand pagan is not in any way supposed to be used offensively it’s merely not the religion your from. Christians would believe every other relgion is considered pagan
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Pagan originally meant “from the country”
it later came to mean to worship gods of the country folk.
so i would say that anyone that worships a nature god, or a god of a known Pagan faith. would be Pagan. or to worship more than one god.
(most Native Americans do not consider themselves Pagan. because they only believe in one god. and they define Pagan as worshiping more than one god. )
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The word “pagan” actually means country dweller. But christians began to use the term to describe any that were not christian. These include, the druids, the native americans, even buddists can be considered pagan. Pagans were forced to either convert or be killed. It seems funny how the early christians were persecuted but when the Romans made christianity into the power that it is today the christians persecuted the pagans.
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With those closest to me, the word pagan describes the non-Christian way of life lived by ancient peoples who lived in rural areas around Rome.
Neo-pagan describes those who follow a modern religion based on the practices of usually polytheistic, pre-Christian peoples.
Sometimes people drop the neo- part of the word. That’s okay with me. I don’t get hung up on it. When I use the word “pagan” in public, I usually mean “polytheist” but I know that the word has many different meanings.
Other neo-pagan religions would include shamanism (classical and core) , many different forms of druidism, and a slew of reconstructionist faiths such as Asatru, Hellenismos, Kemeticism, Celtic Reconstructionism, Slavic Reconstructionism, Religio Romano, Romuva, Canaanite Reconstructionism, and Brythonic Traditionalism.
There are also countless eclectic and family traditions.
And I’m sure that there are plenty more that I haven’t heard of yet.
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Pagan to me means any religion that is nature-based and usually polytheistic.
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All of them esp. Christianity — with Easter celebration and all.
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Any religion is pagan if it is not Christian, Jewish, or Muslim.
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all religions EVEN christian have roots of paganism buried deep in history and we of all religions give thanks to our ancestors who handed down their beliefs and secrets …. and we of all faiths …. all rejoice at seasons past and new ones approaching as in “paganism” and still many other religions ….even the dreaded Christians ….so it seems …mother earth
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Satanism is one of those neoPagan religions. It may have been around in one form or another for a couple of centuries, but it is MUCH newer than Wicca, and all too often confused with Wicca. It helps to know that Wiccans have no concept for Satan; Satanism is anti-christian, intentionally opposed to God and goodness.
Any religion that predates a Christian conversion (or conquest) would be considered Pagan. This is a Western World answer, and i can’t speak intelligently about terms in the rest of the world.
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