neo-pagan

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Noun
  • Meanwhile, the state's religiously unaffiliated population increased from 22% (2007) to 31% (2023-2024) and those practicing a non-Christian religion rose from 4% to 10%.
    Carly Mallenbaum, Axios, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Meanwhile, 78% of those 65 and older identify as Christian. State of prayer: More Houston residents identify as non-Christian or religiously unaffiliated now than in 2014. 67% of Houston residents identify as Christian, down from 73% in 2014.
    Shafaq Patel, Axios, 19 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Church officials decided to recognize Dec. 25 as his birthday, probably to coincide with the date of pagan festivals in an attempt to get pagans to accept Christianity as the official religion.
    Atlanta Life, ajc, 10 Nov. 2017
  • While plague stalks the land, paranoid peasants swap cautionary folk tales about evil spirits, pagans, Jews and other outsiders.
    Stephen Dalton, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 2017
Noun
  • Could an evangelical school like Wheaton College be compelled to appoint an atheist to its faculty?
    Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Omagh said that as an atheist and member of an ethnic minority group in Afghanistan known as the Hazara, returning home under the rule of the Taliban would mean death.
    arkansasonline.com, arkansasonline.com, 22 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Helping Muslim students feel safe Often the only female Muslim teacher at her school, Khan-Ghany served as important representation to Muslim students and a bridge to non-Muslim students, constantly helping dispel negative stereotypes held by students and parents.
    Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Official population statistics for non-Muslim minorities in modern Turkey have not been recorded since 1965.
    Türkay Salim Nefes, JSTOR Daily, 16 Oct. 2024
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