https://www.learnreligions.com/what-is-pre-christian-2561914
In general, the phrase pre-Christian refers to not a specific universal date, but the point at which a culture or society became so touched by Christianity that it was in fact the dominant influence over previous religious and societal beliefs. Cite this Article. Wondering what we mean when we talk about a culture or religion being pre-Christian?

https://historycollection.com/the-weird-and-wonderful-religious-practices-and-beliefs-of-pre-christian-britain/
Augustine triumphed- and Aethelberht set about Christianising Saxon Britain. Britain, however, had several millennia worth of accumulated pre Christian religious beliefs and practices behind it. Barbaric, surprising or curiously familiar, many of these beliefs survive today, as folk memories, archaeological relics - or within Christianity itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_paganism
The right half of the front panel of the 7th-century Franks Casket, depicting the Anglo-Saxon (and wider Germanic) legend of Wayland the Smith. Anglo-Saxon paganism, sometimes termed Anglo-Saxon heathenism, Anglo-Saxon pre-Christian religion, Anglo-Saxon traditional religion, or Anglo-Saxon polytheism refers to the religious beliefs and practices followed by the Anglo-Saxons between the 5th

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paganism
Paganism (from classical Latin pāgānus "rural", "rustic", later "civilian") is a term first used in the fourth century by early Christians for people in the Roman Empire who practiced polytheism, [1] or ethnic religions other than Judaism. In the time of the Roman Empire, individuals fell into the pagan class either because they were

https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/paganism/subdivisions/heathenry_1.shtml
Heathenry is a term used to describe the religious practices of two main groups of people, one historical and one modern. The original Heathens were the pre-Christian North European peoples who

https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1205/early-christianity/
Emerging from a small sect of Judaism in the 1st century CE, early Christianity absorbed many of the shared religious, cultural, and intellectual traditions of the Greco-Roman world. In traditional histories of Western culture, the emergence of Christianity in the Roman Empire is known as "the triumph of Christianity." This refers to the victory of Christian beliefs over the allegedly

https://www.religion-online.org/book-chapter/chapter-2-pre-christian-history/
Chapter 2: Pre-Christian History. Christianity in the History of Religion. Compared with the thousands of years in which human life has been on this planet, Christianity is a recent development. When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/handbook-of-religions-in-ancient-europe/prechristian-anglosaxon-religion/4153C65F1DB6893CF4A72136EB50E2DE
Finding apt terms to refer to the pre-Christian religious beliefs and practices of the Anglo-Saxons remains a challenging task. The fact that a word for "religion" is lacking in the lexicon of the early Germanic peoples of Europe is perhaps a tell-tale one. Those people may have cultivated a variety of religious beliefs and practices, only

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_religion
Prehistoric religion is the religious practice of prehistoric cultures. Prehistory, the period before written records, makes up the bulk of human experience; over 99% of human experience occurred during the Paleolithic period alone. Prehistoric cultures spanned the globe and existed for over two and a half million years; their religious practices were many and varied, and the study of them is

https://www.thoughtco.com/irish-mythology-4768762
Irish mythology is a collection of pre-Christian beliefs detailing the histories and legends of ancient Ireland. These beliefs include descriptions and stories of deities, heroes, and kings measured in four distinct, chronological cycles.

https://insideucr.ucr.edu/stories/2021/06/18/historian-discusses-pre-christian-religion-ancient-rome
Before Christianity in ancient Rome, religion was diverse and vast. Michele R. Salzman, a professor of history at the University of California, Riverside, spoke to host Andrew Schiestel for the Ithaca Bound podcast about religions and forms of worship in ancient Rome and how they functioned. The episode is entitled, "Pre-Christian Religion in

https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/paganism/history/spiritualhistory_1.shtml
Britain's spiritual history. Pagan wedding at Avebury, attended by Emma Restall Orr, Chief Druid of the British Druid Order. This section explores the spirituality of Britain, from pre-Christian

http://irishedition.com/2017/08/the-pre-christian-religion-of-ancient-ireland/
What we nowadays refer to as the 'Celtic' culture was a central part of Irish life. This included laws, language and religion. The ancient Irish texts written in early Christian times describe the customs and way of life in Ireland prior to the arrival of Christianity. There was the old law system known as Brehon law, which remained

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Finno-Ugric-religion
Finno-Ugric religion, pre-Christian and pre-Islamic religious beliefs and practices of the Finno-Ugric peoples, who inhabit regions of northern Scandinavia, Siberia, the Baltic area, and central Europe.In modern times the religion of many of these peoples has been an admixture of agrarian and nomadic primitive beliefs and of Christianity and Islam.

https://www.worldhistory.org/Ancient_Celtic_Religion/
The polytheistic religion of the ancient Celts in Iron Age Europe remains obscure for lack of written records, but archaeology and accounts by classical authors help us to piece together a number of the key gods, sacred sites, and cult practices. Variations existed across regions and the centuries, but common features of the Celtic religion include the reverence for sacred groves and other

https://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/history/sites/themes/religion/religion_pre_christian_wales.shtml
Pre-Christian Wales. Before Christianity arrived in Wales, archaeological evidence shows the existence of a variety of religious beliefs and rituals. Evidence of the existence of the pre-historic

https://en.natmus.dk/historical-knowledge/denmark/prehistoric-period-until-1050-ad/the-viking-age/religion-magic-death-and-rituals/the-old-religion/
Our knowledge about the Vikings' early beliefs - the pre-Christian religion - is a patchwork quilt of information from many places, periods and people, who were often from a completely different background. The most important sources about the old Nordic religion are the poems of the Elder Edda (Poetic Edda) and the Younger Edda (Prose

https://www.britannica.com/topic/history-of-early-Christianity
Christianity begins with Jesus Christ.The effects of his life, the response to his teachings, the experience of his death, and the belief in his resurrection were the origins of the Christian community. When the Apostle Peter is represented in the New Testament as confessing that Jesus is "the Christ, the Son of the living God," he speaks for the Christianity of all ages.

https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/book/10.1484/M.PCRN-EB.5.110824
Abstract: Over more than a thousand years since pre-Christian religions were actively practised, European - and later contemporary - society has developed a fascination with the beliefs of northern Europe before the arrival of Christianity, which have been the subject of a huge range of popular and scholarly theories, interpretations, and uses.

https://archive.org/details/sacredislebelief0000ohog
The sacred isle : belief and religion in pre-Christian Ireland by Ó hÓgáin, Dáithí, 1949-Publication date 1999 Topics Druids and Druidism, Ireland -- Religion Publisher Doughcloyne, Wilton, Cork : Collins Press Collection internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pre-Christian
pre-Christian: [adjective] of, relating to, or being a time before the beginning of the Christian era.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Christian
Pre-Christian may refer to: . Before Christianization (the spread of Christianity): . Historical polytheism (the worship of or belief in multiple deities); Historical paganism (denoting various non-Abrahamic religions); Before Christ (BC), the era before the year 1 in the Julian and Gregorian calendars . Classical antiquity, a period of history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, lasting from

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/12i9we/what_were_the_main_religions_of_prechristian/
The only modern "religion" that is "greener" than Christianity is Buddhism. ... Now it is known that the pre-christian Slavs had their places of worship on such mountaintops (they also believed in the power and spirits of rocks, water, woods, mountains etc). Now in the christian times there was a church-building of the heretic Bosnian Church on

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/18-fundamental-christian-beliefs-that-are-frequently-forgotten/ss-BB1p7hQC
Christianity is of course one of the dominant global religions. While the core principles and practices of the Christian faith have been preserved for thousands of years, society has evolved and

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/25/us/oklahoma-supreme-court-religious-charter-school.html
The Oklahoma Supreme Court blocked on Tuesday what would have been the nation's first religious charter school, delivering a setback to a conservative movement that has increasingly fought for