nature worship
Example Sentences
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Baker, detectives learned, had been a sweet-tempered practitioner of Wicca, a form of nature worship that shunned violence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2025
In the late 19th century, many tribespeople in Jharkhand, Odisha and other states renounced nature worship — some voluntarily and others coaxed by money, food and free education — and converted to Christianity.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2022
It's certainly tempting to recruit witches as symbols of paganism, nature worship, herbal remedies, earth-wisdom and ecological right-mindedness, if only to confound those who see them as purveyors of madness or Satanic child abuse.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 20, 2012
Other belief systems have been gradually layered over, or spliced into, nature worship.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2011
But nature worship and ancestor worship are concomitant parts of the same religion, and belong to a status of culture highly advanced and characterized by the invention of conventional pictographs.
From On Limitations To The Use Of Some Anthropologic Data by John Wesley Powell
