Sentence examples for pagan from inspiring English sources

It enacts a regression from the Christian ethic of "love thy neighbour" back to the pagan privileging of the tribe over the barbarian Other.

Shanxi is a seductive book, a glimpse of a world of pagan custom that somehow endures against the odds, dreamlike and entrancing.

If anyone threatens me with facts, I can call them an antidemocratic, anti-jobs, McCarthyist, communist, anti-freedom, pagan environmentalist.

Party like its the dark ages at this historic new year festival, during which men dressed in pagan attire march whisky barrels filled with flaming tar across the town square.

"These photographs document ancient customs originating [in] pagan beliefs – voodooesque forms of totem worship," he writes in his afterword.

Young and old alike partake in the customs, dressing up and painting their faces to resemble mythical beasts and near-forgotten pagan deities.

In his autobiographical writings on Algiers and on the Roman ruins at Tipasa, he describes a pagan place where classical values were still alive and visible in the harsh but beautiful, sun-drenched landscape.

In the great flush of euphoria, I lay my hands on one of the sarsens and feel a strange pagan connection running back through the millennia…or maybe it's just exhaustion.

That still seems to be the case, even with a subject matter as exotic as the pagan festivities in Shanxi.

SIXTEEN centuries ago the Roman Emperor Theodosius branded the Olympic games pagan and banned them.

Many African Muslims continue to observe traditional pagan ceremonies, which upset the morality police in Sudan, but are tolerated everywhere else.Spats between African Muslims and non-Muslims are common, and sometimes bloody, but for the most part believers and unbelievers rub along well enough.