paganization

American  

[pay-guhn-uh-zay-shuhn] / ˌpeɪ gən əˈzeɪ ʃən /

noun

1. the act or process of making something or someone paganistic.

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Other Word Forms

• repaganization noun

Example Sentences

Now you’ve got Matthew Barney, who has latched onto this idea of the mythological, which seems very much in the air: the whole paganization of our culture.

From New York Times

A second result of the imitation of the classics was the paganization of Renaissance culture.

From Project Gutenberg

This Puritan movement -268-against the paganization of poetry corresponds to the similar movement started by the Council of Trent in Catholic countries.

From Project Gutenberg

In fine, as a reformer, he represents for us the religious reaction against the paganization of culture by the humanists.

From Project Gutenberg

Savonarola, in the fifteenth century, and the Council of Trent, in the sixteenth, reacted against the paganization of literature, but in vain.

From Project Gutenberg