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• Neopaganism — or Neo Paganism is an umbrella term used to identify a wide variety of modern religious movements, particularly those influenced by historical pre Christian European pagan religions. [Lewis, James R. The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements …   Wikipedia

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• ESTHÉTISME — Le terme d’esthétisme et celui d’esthète, qui lui est lié, se réfèrent à des notions beaucoup plus récentes et plus particularisées que celle d’«esthétique», mot dont ils sont cependant dérivés. Alors que ce dernier terme remonte au grec et qu’il …   Encyclopédie Universelle

• ZOLA, ÉMILE —    a noted French novelist of the realistic school, or of what he prefers to call the naturalist school, born in Paris, of Italian descent; began literature as a journalist, specially in the critical department, but soon gave himself up to novel… …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

• aestheticism —    or æstheticism    The belief that the pursuit of beauty is the most important goal, and that it is the artist s duty to orchestrate selected elements from nature into a composition that, like music, exists for its own sake, without regard to… …   Glossary of Art Terms