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Polytheism is the
belief in or
worship of more than one god.
According to
Oxford Reference, it is not easy to
count gods, and so not
always obvious whether...
- pre-Islamic Arabia, the
dominant religious practice was that of Arab
polytheism,
which was
based on the
veneration of
various deities and spirits, such...
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Greece as well as the
western empire. The
initial decline of Greco-Roman
polytheism was due in part to its
syncretic nature, ****imilating
beliefs and practices...
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Paganism (and
modern paganism)
Animism Panentheism Pantheism Polytheism Historical ethnic religions (list) (existing and extinct)
Modern paganism...
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polytheistic practices is
between so-called soft
polytheism and hard
polytheism. "Soft"
polytheism is the
belief that
different gods may be psychological...
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divinities with
particular functions. The last
stages of
Mesopotamian polytheism,
which developed in the 2nd and 1st
millennia BC,
introduced greater emphasis...
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Paganism (and
modern paganism)
Animism Panentheism Pantheism Polytheism Historical ethnic religions (list) (existing and extinct)
Modern paganism...
- polytheists.
Another more
general name for this
religion is ****enic
polytheism or paganism. This term is used most
often outside of Greece. Some academics...
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economy of the
third and
fourth centuries struggled, and
traditional polytheism was expensive.
Roger S.
Bagnall reports that
imperial financial support...
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century by
early Christians for
people in the
Roman Empire who
practiced polytheism, or
ethnic religions other than Christianity, Judaism, and Samaritanism...
