وثنية

(تم التحويل من الوثنية)
Romanticized depiction from 1887 showing two Roman women offering a sacrifice to the goddess Vesta.

الوثنية (إنگليزية: Paganism؛ من اللاتينية الكلاسيكية pāgānus "الريفيون" أو "المحليون"، لاحقاً "المدنيون")، هو مصطلح استخدم لأول مرة في القرن الرابع من قبل المسيحيون الأوائل لوصف الأشخاص في الرومان الذين كانوا يعبدون الآلهة المتعددة[1] أو الديانات العرقية وليس اليهودية. في عصر الإمبراطورية الرومانية، كان الأفراد ضمن طبقة الوثنيين إما لأنهم كانوا ريفيين ومحليين بشكل متزايد بالنسبة إلى السكان المسيحيين، أو لأنهم لم يكونوا "ميليتس كريستي" (جنود المسيح).[2][3] كانت المصطلحات البديلة في النصوص المسيحية هي "الهلنيين" و"غير المؤمنين" و"الوثنيين".[1] Ritual sacrifice was an integral part of ancient Graeco-Roman religion[4] and was regarded as an indication of whether a person was pagan or Christian.[4] Paganism has broadly connoted the "religion of the peasantry".[1][5]

During and after the Middle Ages, the term paganism was applied to any non-Christian religion, and the term presumed a belief in false god(s).[6][7]

The origin of the application of the term pagan to polytheism is debated.[8] In the 19th century, paganism was adopted as a self-descriptor by members of various artistic groups inspired by the ancient world. In the 20th century, it came to be applied as a self-descriptor by practitioners of Modern Paganism, Neopagan movements and Polytheistic reconstructionists. Modern pagan traditions often incorporate beliefs or practices, such as nature worship, that are different from those in the largest world religions.[9][10]

Contemporary knowledge of old pagan religions and beliefs comes from several sources, including anthropological field research records, the evidence of archaeological artifacts, and the historical accounts of ancient writers regarding cultures known to Classical antiquity.

Most modern pagan religions existing today (Modern or Neopaganism[11][12]) express a world view that is pantheistic, panentheistic, polytheistic or animistic, but some are monotheistic.[13]

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المصطلحات وأصل الاسم


Hellene



Heathen

التعريف

Defining paganism is complex and problematic. Understanding the context of its associated terminology is important.[14] Early Christians referred to the diverse array of cults around them as a single group for reasons of convenience and rhetoric.[15] While paganism generally implies polytheism, the primary distinction between classical pagans and Christians was not one of monotheism versus polytheism, as not all pagans were strictly polytheist. Throughout history, many of them believed in a supreme deity. However, most such pagans believed in a class of subordinate gods/daimons—see henotheism—or divine emanations.[13] To Christians, the most important distinction was whether or not someone worshipped the one true God. Those who did not (polytheist, monotheist, or atheist) were outsiders to the Church and thus considered pagan.[16] Similarly, classical pagans would have found it peculiar to distinguish groups by the number of deities followers venerate. They would have considered the priestly colleges (such as the College of Pontiffs or Epulones) and cult practices more meaningful distinctions.[17]


الإدراك

التعصب العرقي

التاريخ

قبل التاريخ

العصر البرونزي-أوائل العصر الحديدي

العتيق الكلاسيكي


Late Antiquity and Christianization


ظهور الإسلام

Arabic paganism gradually disappeared during prophet Muhammad's era through Islamization.[18][19] The sacred months of the Arab pagans were the 1st, 7th, 11th and 12th months of the Islamic calendar.[20] After Muhammad had conquered Mecca he set out to convert the pagans.[21][22][23] One of the last military campaigns that Muhammad ordered against the Arab pagans was the Demolition of Dhul Khalasa. It occurred in April and May 632 AD, in 10AH of the Islamic Calendar. Dhul Khalasa is referred to as both an idol and a temple, and it was known by some as the Ka'ba of Yemen, built and worshipped by pagan tribes.[24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32]


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أوائل العصر الحديث

Romanticism

الوثنية الحديثة

Some megaliths are believed to have religious significance.
Children standing with The Lady of Cornwall in a neopagan ceremony in England
Neopagan handfasting ceremony at Avebury (Beltane 2005)


The hammer Mjölnir is one of the primary symbols of Germanic neopaganism.
The Tursaansydän symbol, part of the Finnish neopaganism.


Ethnic religions of pre-Christian Europe

انظر أيضاً

الهوامش

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  2. ^ J. J. O'Donnell (1977), Paganus: Evolution and Use, Classical Folia, 31: 163–69.
  3. ^ Augustine, Divers. Quaest. 83.
  4. ^ أ ب Jones, Christopher P. (2014). Between Pagan and Christian. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-72520-1.
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  14. ^ Davies 2011, Defining paganism.
  15. ^ Cameron 2011, p. 26.
  16. ^ Cameron 2011, pp. 27, 31.
  17. ^ Cameron 2011, p. 29.
  18. ^ Mubarakpuri, Saifur Rahman Al (2005), The sealed nectar: biography of the Noble Prophet, Darussalam Publications, pp. 245–46, ISBN 978-9960-899-55-8, https://books.google.com/books?id=r_80rJHIaOMC&pg=PA245 
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  29. ^ صحيح البخاري، 5:59:641
  30. ^ Dermenghem, Émile (1930). The life of Mahomet. G. Routledge. p. 239. ISBN 978-9960-897-71-4. Five hundred horsemen went to Dhul Khalasa to demolish the Yemenite Ka'ba
  31. ^ Ibn al Kalbi, Hisham (1952). The book of idols: being a translation from the Arabic of the Kitāb al-asnām. Princeton University Press. pp. 31–32. ASIN B002G9N1NQ.
  32. ^ The Book of Idols, Scribd, https://www.scribd.com/doc/34864705/The-Book-of-Idols, retrieved on 9 September 2017 .

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وصلات خارجية