heathendom
Realm of pagans
Heathendom is the world of heathens—those who don't follow the major monotheistic religions, or more loosely, the unchurched and irreligious.
The word carries an archaic, slightly literary quality: missionaries venturing into heathendom.
It can refer to heathen peoples collectively or to the state of being heathen.
Savage, uncivilized behavior
- paganismNon-monotheistic religious practice
- idolatryVeneration of false gods
- infidelNonbeliever in another's creed
- unbelieverOne lacking faith
godlessness · irreligion · apostasy · heresy · unchristian · unconverted · benighted · superstition
Belief in multiple deities
- neopaganismRevived polytheistic spirituality
- pantheonAll gods of a religion
- godsSupernatural beings worshipped
- goddessesDivine feminine beings
idolatry · worship · altars · shrines · offerings · sacrifices · libations · blot
All gods of a religion
barbarism
Savage, uncivilized behavior
- paganismNon-monotheistic religious practice
- idolatryVeneration of false gods
- infidelNonbeliever in another's creed
unbeliever · godlessness · irreligion · apostasy · heresy · unchristian · unconverted · benighted · superstition · gentile
polytheism
Belief in multiple deities
- neopaganismRevived polytheistic spirituality
- pantheonAll gods of a religion
- godsSupernatural beings worshipped
goddesses · idolatry · worship · altars · shrines · offerings · sacrifices · libations · blot · reconstructionism
pantheon
All gods of a religion
ceremony
Formal event marking occasions
offering · altar · invocation · chant · divination · oracle · augury · amulet · talisman · totem
tribe
Social group sharing ancestry
hearth · fellowship · gathering · thing · moot · elders · chieftain · ancestors · lineage · kinship
heathendomChristendom
Collective Christian world
Christianity · monotheism · Abrahamic faiths · Judaism · organized religion
heathen, heath, heathens, heathenish, heathenism, heathery, heathenry