Interpretatio christiana (Latin for Christian interpretation, also Christian reinterpretation) is adaptation of non-Christian elements of culture or historical facts to the worldview of Christianity. The term is commonly applied to recasting of religious and cultural activities, beliefs and imageries of "pagan" peoples into a Christianized form as a strategy for their Christianization. From a Christian perspective, "pagan" refers to the various religious beliefs and practices of those who were neither Christian nor Jewish, including within the Greco-Roman world the traditional public and domestic religion of ancient Rome, Imperial cult, Hellenistic religion, ancient Egyptian religion, Celtic and Germanic polytheism, initiation religions such as the Eleusinian Mysteries and Mithraism, the religions of the ancient Near East, and the religion of Carthage.