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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 • Jan. 14, 2016

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

From A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism by Spingarn, Joel Elias

The policy of Constantine the Great inevitably tended to the paganization of Christianity.

From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by Draper, John William

The old forms of the one were vivified by the new spirit of the other, and that paganization to which reference has already been made was the result.

From History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science by Draper, John William

Let us pause here a moment, and see, in anticipation, to what a depth of intellectual degradation this policy of paganization eventually led.

From History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science by Draper, John William