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Перевод: paganism

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Тезаурус:

1. Clement was a convert from paganism.
2. These stories describe a form of religion commonly described as paganism, and represent what can clearly be understood as a type of polytheism.
3. Eliot's vision, which gives him his sympathies with "neo-agrarians", however "quixotic,, is a vision to counter the modern paganism of economic determinists whose theory has become "a god before whom we fall down and worship with all kinds of music".
4. In due course, however, they began to be influenced by the astrological beliefs of converts from paganism; as a result, they adopted the planetary week.
5. In the civil war of 324 he had represented his military campaign as a crusade against a corrupt paganism.
6. Within a few years of this last attempt by an emperor to rally the Roman empire to paganism, a Greek bishop could speak of Julian's pagan revival as a misguided attempt to introduce "novelties" in place of the traditional religion; but at much the same time in the West, Christians were still regarded as outside the mainstream of respectable upper-class culture, as the foolish minority who rejected the wise and hallowed traditions of their forefathers which had made Rome great.
7. A Saxon code of law was published which dealt firmly with reversions to paganism; any return to the old way of worship was punished by death.
8. Despite the saints involved, both customs derive from Celtic paganism, and are none the worse for that.
9. It should not be supposed from such criteria for choosing Christianity or retaining paganism that pagans were so simple-minded as to think prosperity and material adversity automatic grounds for conversion or retention of paganism as the case might be.
10. The arrival of Christianity in Birka sparked off one of the sternest tussles between Christianity and paganism anywhere in this period.
11. It seemed to me that the Quirkes gloried in the poetry of paganism, but were not true pagans, eager to propitiate feared gods with flame and sacrifice.
12. These oriental concepts find parallels in the teaching of Swedenborg, (see chapter ten), but would have been repudiated by Evangelicals, whose missionary zeal made any taint of paganism hateful to them.
13. By the time of Pope Gregory I the world of cultivated Roman paganism had receded into a past now only dimly seen through the distorting medium of legend and folklore.