heathenism

noun

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as in paganism

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  1. paganism
  2. polytheism
  3. theology
  4. monotheism
  5. pantheism
  6. doctrine
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  • Modern trans coven leaders are rekindling this charge, fighting transphobia in paganism, and creating covens and magic all on their own.
    Emma Cieslik, Them, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The defense, meanwhile, is hoping to use the placement of the sticks as evidence of their theory the girls were killed not by Allen, but rather in a ritualistic murder, perhaps as part of Odinism, a branch of Norse paganism with a far-right strain.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN, 28 Oct. 2024
Definition of paganism
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  • Also, Akhenaten’s successor tried to steer religion back to polytheism, which is contrary to Nefertiti’s earlier views.
    Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2024
  • Nor does the divide between Mesopotamian polytheism and Jewish monotheism pose a problem.
    Esther Brownsmith, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2024
Definition of polytheism
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  • Du Châtelet was searching for a grand synthesis of Newtonian, Cartesian, and Leibnizian ideas, in the way that Viennese visionaries of the nineteen-twenties hoped to unify all the sciences, and in the way that later thinkers tried to reconcile quantum physics with Einstein—and both with theology.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
  • For example, Jack Lillie, a musician, deferred to his ambitious wife, R. S., a gifted medium who traveled the American west lecturing about Spiritualist theology.
    Marissa C. Rhodes / Made by History, TIME, 8 Oct. 2024
Definition of theology
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  • Through it all, the rabbis and imam maintain faith in the ties that bound Judaism and Islam together: a common origin in the Middle East through Abraham; a tradition of strict monotheism emphasizing the oneness of God; a reverence for biblical and Quranic shared prophets from Isaac to Moses.
    Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Nor does the divide between Mesopotamian polytheism and Jewish monotheism pose a problem.
    Esther Brownsmith, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2024
Definition of monotheism
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  • In 1809, Friedrich’s budding pantheism landed him in hot water.
    Zachary Fine, The New Yorker, 28 June 2024
  • Spinoza was infamous for his sometimes inscrutable variety of pantheism, in which God no longer sits outside Nature, paring his fingernails (James Joyce’s joke), but effectively is Nature, inextricable from it.
    James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
Definition of pantheism
Noun
  • By contrast, animation foregrounds the pictorial, which is its own aesthetic doctrine.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
  • Russia’s nuclear doctrine holds that an attack on any element of its deterrent force justifies a nuclear response.
    William M. Moon, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of doctrine
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