Surely it was the temperate climate and lush natural environment of the Japanese archipelago that fostered the intuitive religion” that is Japanese polytheism. In many ways, the difference ...

LOS ANGELES (RNS) To celebrate the winter solstice, Dean Cameron made an offering to Poseidon, the ancient Greek god of the sea. In his North Hollywood backyard he placed a roast on the makeshift ...

In polytheism, by contrast, there is no all-powerful God, so no all-powerful king. There are many gods who are constantly competing, collaborating and negotiating for power. This allows for democracy.

"When you look across human history, the distinction between polytheism and monotheism kind of falls apart," Durdin told Live Science. Across cultures, pantheons, or groups of deities specific to ...

Polytheism can be a terribly confusing affair to monotheists. The confusion is not just spiritual but material and cultural. Non-practising or secular people brought up in monotheistic cultures ...

Circumambulating graves is considered polytheism. This is because circumambulating is an act of worship that Allah, The Almighty, has only made lawful at a certain place. Thus, anyone who intends to ...

I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger. Shirk (polytheism) is the opposite of Tawheed (monotheism) and it is classified into two ...

Because it was corrupted into polytheism, Allah sent prophets who all taught that there is only one god. Islam took over from Judaism the notion that Abraham in particular was the one who (re ...

ABSTRACT: Richard Rorty has argued that Friedrich Nietzsche and William James are both polytheists in the deflationary sense that they are both pluralists about human value. I argue that there is a ...