Sentences with 'paganism'
Example sentences and phrases with the word paganism and other words derived from it.
• « One aspect of Emperor Justinian's focus on Christian purification was the destruction of the ancient traditions of paganism in and around Greece initiated by his Christian predecessors. »
• « Outside the lands that would eventually become Russia, the Vikings were universally regarded as a terrifying threat, not least because of their staunch paganism and their rapacious treatment of Christians. »
• « The Northern Crusades were, in some ways, as important as the crusades to the Holy Land in that they were responsible for the extinction of the last remnants of paganism in Europe - it actually disappeared by the end of the 14th century in Lithuania, Estonia and Livonia - and for the conquest of a large territory that would one day be a fundamental part of Germany itself: Prussia. »