Bronze Age to Early Iron Age
*Religions of the Ancient Near East**Ancient Egyptian religion
**Ancient Semitic religion
**Mesopotamian religion
*reconstructed Proto-Indo-European religion
*Proto-Indo-Iranian religion
**historical Vedic religion
Classical Antiquity
Ludwig Feuerbach (1833) defines "paganism" (''Heidentum'') in the context of classical antiquityas "the unity of religion and politics, of spirit and nature, of god and man", qualified by the observation that "man" in the pagan view is always defined by ethnicity, i.e. Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Jew, etc., so that each pagan tradition is also an national tradition.
Feuerbach goes on to postulate that the emergence of monotheism and thus the end of the pagan period was a development which naturally grew out of Hellenistic philosophy due to the contradiction inherent in the ethnic nature of pagan tradition and the universality of human spirituality (''Geist''), finally resulting in the emergence of a religion a with universalist scope in the form of Christianity.
*Greco-Roman
**Ancient Greek religion
**Ancient Roman religion
**Hellenistic religion
**Roman imperial cult
**Mystery cult
*Celtic polytheism
Late Antiquity to High Middle Ages
:(as opposed to Abrahamic religion)*Germanic paganism
*Slavic paganism
*Baltic paganism
*Finnish paganism
*Estonian paganism
*Vainakh paganism
Adapted from the Wikipedia article Paganism, under the G. N. U. Free Documentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
