Paganism
id:
paganism-172-9503124
title:
Paganism
text:
Paganism is a term first used in the fourth century by early Christians for people in the Roman Empire who practiced polytheism, or ethnic religions other than Judaism. In the time of the Roman Empire, individuals fell into the pagan class either because they were increasingly rural and provincial relative to the Christian population, or because they were not milites Christi. Alternative terms used in Christian texts were hellene, gentile, and heathen. Ritual sacrifice was an integral part of an
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Polytheistic religious groups
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paganism
date created:
2001-09-29T18:30:40Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T23:31:17Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q29536","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q29536"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Die_Gartenlaube_%281887%29_b_016.jpg","width":2216,"height":3223}
fields total:
13
integrity:
16