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Religion experts say some of the same instincts Vance followed are also driving the growth of interest among younger people in general in gods and goddesses of paganism as well as saints, angels and demons and commemorations of the new moon.
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Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post, 29 July 2024
But the Olympics declined once the Roman Empire replaced Greek power in the Mediterranean; the final blow came from the Christian Emperor Theodosius I, who saw the Games as a stage for paganism.
—Gustavo Morello, The Conversation, 10 July 2024
More than 25 years later, Griego still practices paganism.
—Shahrzad Rasekh, Hartford Courant, 26 Feb. 2024
While the holiday is rooted in paganism, many people who participate in maypole dances don't identify as pagan, according to Berger.
—Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 1 May 2024
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Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post, 29 July 2024
But the Olympics declined once the Roman Empire replaced Greek power in the Mediterranean; the final blow came from the Christian Emperor Theodosius I, who saw the Games as a stage for paganism.
—Gustavo Morello, The Conversation, 10 July 2024
More than 25 years later, Griego still practices paganism.
—Shahrzad Rasekh, Hartford Courant, 26 Feb. 2024
While the holiday is rooted in paganism, many people who participate in maypole dances don't identify as pagan, according to Berger.
—Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 1 May 2024
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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
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Nor does the divide between Mesopotamian polytheism and Jewish monotheism pose a problem.Esther Brownsmith, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2024
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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
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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
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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
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Nor does the divide between Mesopotamian polytheism and Jewish monotheism pose a problem.Esther Brownsmith, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2024
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In 1809, Friedrich’s budding pantheism landed him in hot water.Zachary Fine, The New Yorker, 28 June 2024
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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
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While most of the Empire was being immersed in a religion which was a synthesis of Roman institutions, Greek philosophy and Hebrew theism, a subset of the population of philosophical inclination was being drawn into a religious system descended from Hellenistic paganism.Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2012
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Another frequent topic of disbelief among Edge responders was theism and its anti-science offshoots---in particular the belief in intelligent design, and the belief that the Earth is only a few thousand years old.Jennifer Welsh, Discover Magazine, 23 Nov. 2010
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By contrast, animation foregrounds the pictorial, which is its own aesthetic doctrine.Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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Under the Arizona Constitution's separation of powers doctrine, those types of legal challenges could be filed only after voters approved the initiative.Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024
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This vague gesture in the direction of deism has no antecedent in the book, no moral or theological trajectory to make Bambi’s insight meaningful or satisfying.Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
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Those intuitions usually commended a staid deism and scorn for those whose beliefs extended any further.Jeffrey Collins, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2021
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Spiritualism allowed practitioners to forgo religious authority, scripture, and dogma when accessing the spirit world.Elizabeth Garner Masarik / Made by History, TIME, 16 Oct. 2024
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The symbolism of debuting the presentation in Dallas–where Roe v. Wade was first argued in 1970 before reaching the Supreme Court in 1973–and in Texas–where dogma and control trump safety for pregnant women–is not lost on the curators.Chadd Scott, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
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