Paganism as a Religious Phenomenon

Abstract

Paganism is an indeterminate term both in science in general and in religious studies in particular. It acquires a different meaning load depending on who and what it is used for. Academic religious scholars often refer to it to indicate the stage of development of religious beliefs that preceded ethnic (national-state), and even more so - to world religions. At the same time, some of the scholars refer to paganism not as tribal beliefs, but rather as ethnic religions of a particular people. Therefore, for the Ukrainians, paganism is then conditional on the beliefs united by the "Vladimir Pantheon"