pago-, pag-, pagan- +

1. A 20th-century revival of interest in the worship of nature, fertility, etc.; as represented by various deities.
2. Revived or new paganism.

Neopaganist beliefs and practices are diverse. Some neopagans tend towards a syncretic melding (attempt to reconcile different, even opposing, beliefs) of various religious practices, folk customs, and ritual techniques.

Others observe a specific ancient religion to a degree that can border on historical reenactment. Still other neopagans practice a spirituality that is entirely modern in origin.

1. An offensive term that deliberately insults someone who does not acknowledge the God of the Bible, Torah, or Koran.
2. Someone who does not follow one of the world's main religions; especially, someone who is not a Christian, Muslim, or Jew; and whose religion is regarded as questionable.
3. A follower of an ancient polytheistic or pantheistic religion.
4. Applied by some people to anyone who apparently has no religious beliefs; a heathen.

From about 1375, Late Latin paganus, "pagan", in classical Latin, "villager, rustic, civilian", from pagus, "rural district". It originally meant "district limited by markers"; so, it is related to pangere, "to fix, fasten".

The religious sense is often said to derive from conservative rural adherence to the old gods after the Christianization of Roman towns and cities; but the word in this sense predates that period in Church history, and it is more likely derived from the use of paganus in Roman military jargon for "civilian, incompetent soldier", which Christians (Tertullian, c.202; Augustine) picked up with the military imagery of the early Church (that is, milites, "soldier of Christ" or "Christian soldier"). It is applied to modern pantheists and nature-worshippers from 1908.

1. That part of the world inhabited by pagans.
2. The pagan lands; pagans, collectively.

1. Someone who does not acknowledge your God.
2. Not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam.

1. A pagan spirit or attitude in religious or moral questions.
2. The beliefs or practices of pagans.
3. The state of being pagan; pagan characteristics; especially, the worship of idols or false gods, or the system of religious opinions and worship maintained by pagans; heathenism.
4. The word, paganism is attested, or affirmed, by some authorities to be from 1433.

1. To make efforts to convert others to paganism.
2. To render pagan or heathenish; to convert to paganism.