neo-pagan

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Noun
  • A number of other, smaller religious groups make up the balance of non-Christian adherents.
    Jason DeRose, NPR, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Other recent faith + higher ed news:Why Nashville's Belmont University is hiring non-Christian faculty and staff Also, Eastern Nazarene has been working for years on a draft of these teach-out agreements with the schools now accepting these transfer students.
    Liam Adams, The Tennessean, 8 July 2024
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
  • Austin Ray, an atheist, filed the civil action against the Denver Department of Transportation and Infrastructure in January in federal court.
    Sara Schilling, Sacramento Bee, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Ray, an atheist, was hired by Denver’s Department of Transportation and Infrastructure in October 2023, his attorney David Meretta with the Littleton firm Miller & Law wrote in the complaint.
    Katie Langford, The Denver Post, 27 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The following tips will help non-Muslim travelers make the most out of their trip during Ramadan while also ensuring adequate respect for locals who are fasting.
    Kaitlyn McInnis, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Of all the nearly 500 non-Muslim passengers on the train, only one man spoke up against what was happening, a former Yugoslav army officer named Tomo Buzov, an ethnic Croat and a Christian.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 10 Feb. 2025
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“Neo-pagan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/neo-pagan. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.

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