Polytheism

Nature worship is often considered the primitive source of modern religious beliefs and can be found in pantheism, panentheism, deism, polytheism, animism, Taoism, totemism, Hinduism, shamanism, some theism and paganism.

Aeschylus, Suppliants frg. 202, as cited by Parker, Polytheism and Society at Athens, p. 142. Pausanias recorded a few other religious sites in Greece devoted to Prometheus.

Atheism, Trinitarian views of God, and polytheism are all ruled out.

Both religions reject atheism on one hand and polytheism on the other.

Henotheism and inclusive monotheism are terms that refer to a middle position between unlimited polytheism and exclusive monotheism.

He opposed the use of the hallucinogenic Haoma plant, polytheism and an oppressive class system in Persia.

In consequence, under the rule of demons, man sank into the abominable error of polytheism.

In the Natural History of Religion (1757), Hume contends that polytheism, not monotheism, was "the first and most ancient religion of mankind".

No compelling reason is provided for the caesura of persecution, though, unlike in the incident of the satanic verses, where it is the (temporary) fruit of Muhammad's accommodation to Meccan polytheism.

Regarding the nature of her cult, it has been remarked, "she is more at home on the fringes than in the center of Greek polytheism.

Some other forms of Hinduism such as Smartism Advaita Vedanta serve as examples of soft polytheism.

That also was in the polytheism of the times.

The general theme of these commandments is a prohibition against polytheism since the practice of sorcery connotes the alleged invocation of spirits or other unseen forces that are not God.

The teaching avoids polytheism by insisting that the sephirot are not to be prayed to, but rather, to be meditated on and experienced as manifestations of how God acts in the world.

This theory was largely abandoned in the 19th century in favour of an evolutionary progression from animism via polytheism to monotheism, but by 1974 this theory was less widely held.

This was more to preserve the logical precision of the argument than due to a penchant for polytheism.