Noun
The state of being pagan; pagan characteristics; esp., the worship of idols or false gods, or the system of religious opinions and worship maintained by pagans; heathenism.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAlthough paganism still exists today, we are no longer the only ones to have a belief in one God. Source: Internet
At each they recited verses, some of which "savoured strongly of paganism", and the farmer was expected to donate food. Source: Internet
Archaeologist Neil Christie notes that it was common in such hagiographies for the protagonist to encounter areas of strong paganism. Source: Internet
Augustine needed more clergy to join the Gregorian mission that was converting the kingdom of Kent, then ruled by Æthelberht, from paganism to Christianity. Source: Internet
Bede, book II, chapter 3 Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England, p. 109. After the death of Saebert in AD 616, Mellitus was driven out and the kingdom reverted to paganism. Source: Internet
Both had come inspired by the idea that "European colonization would bring moral and social progress to the continent and free its inhabitants "from slavery, paganism and other barbarities." Source: Internet