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Also, Akhenaten’s successor tried to steer religion back to polytheism, which is contrary to Nefertiti’s earlier views.
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Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2024
Nor does the divide between Mesopotamian polytheism and Jewish monotheism pose a problem.
—Esther Brownsmith, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2024
Religious history Fascinating finds related to religious history tell a story of diverse, competing yet sometimes complementary worldviews, from the polytheism of the ancient Greeks and Romans to Buddhism to Christianity.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023
Pagan polytheism in ancient Rome was dizzyingly complicated, the gods seen as constant companions who hovered over the city’s mortal residents from birth to death, communicating with them incessantly but obliquely from their temples and shrines.
—David Laskin Martin Pauer, New York Times, 1 May 2023
Fascinating finds related to religious history tell a story of diverse, competing yet sometimes complementary worldviews, from the polytheism of the ancient Greeks and Romans to Buddhism to Christianity.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Dec. 2022
In any case, in Mesopotamia outside forces can not account from the shift from institutional polytheism to monotheistic universalist religion.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2012
Zahra, who also goes by Ankhzahra Soshotep, is a Black nationalist from Chicago, a member of a sect that practices Egyptian polytheism.
—Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2022
The ensuing murder of Poseidon, and the resulting floods throughout the Greek world, set the stakes: Kratos is about to dismantle Greek polytheism with his bare hands.
—Gene Park, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2022
Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2024
Nor does the divide between Mesopotamian polytheism and Jewish monotheism pose a problem.
—Esther Brownsmith, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2024
Religious history Fascinating finds related to religious history tell a story of diverse, competing yet sometimes complementary worldviews, from the polytheism of the ancient Greeks and Romans to Buddhism to Christianity.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023
Pagan polytheism in ancient Rome was dizzyingly complicated, the gods seen as constant companions who hovered over the city’s mortal residents from birth to death, communicating with them incessantly but obliquely from their temples and shrines.
—David Laskin Martin Pauer, New York Times, 1 May 2023
Fascinating finds related to religious history tell a story of diverse, competing yet sometimes complementary worldviews, from the polytheism of the ancient Greeks and Romans to Buddhism to Christianity.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Dec. 2022
In any case, in Mesopotamia outside forces can not account from the shift from institutional polytheism to monotheistic universalist religion.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2012
Zahra, who also goes by Ankhzahra Soshotep, is a Black nationalist from Chicago, a member of a sect that practices Egyptian polytheism.
—Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2022
The ensuing murder of Poseidon, and the resulting floods throughout the Greek world, set the stakes: Kratos is about to dismantle Greek polytheism with his bare hands.
—Gene Park, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for polytheism
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Modern trans coven leaders are rekindling this charge, fighting transphobia in paganism, and creating covens and magic all on their own.Emma Cieslik, Them, 1 Nov. 2024
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The defense, meanwhile, is hoping to use the placement of the sticks as evidence of their theory the girls were killed not by Allen, but rather in a ritualistic murder, perhaps as part of Odinism, a branch of Norse paganism with a far-right strain.Zoe Sottile, CNN, 28 Oct. 2024
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Through it all, the rabbis and imam maintain faith in the ties that bound Judaism and Islam together: a common origin in the Middle East through Abraham; a tradition of strict monotheism emphasizing the oneness of God; a reverence for biblical and Quranic shared prophets from Isaac to Moses.Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
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Nor does the divide between Mesopotamian polytheism and Jewish monotheism pose a problem.Esther Brownsmith, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2024
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In 1809, Friedrich’s budding pantheism landed him in hot water.Zachary Fine, The New Yorker, 28 June 2024
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Spinoza was infamous for his sometimes inscrutable variety of pantheism, in which God no longer sits outside Nature, paring his fingernails (James Joyce’s joke), but effectively is Nature, inextricable from it.James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
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Du Châtelet was searching for a grand synthesis of Newtonian, Cartesian, and Leibnizian ideas, in the way that Viennese visionaries of the nineteen-twenties hoped to unify all the sciences, and in the way that later thinkers tried to reconcile quantum physics with Einstein—and both with theology.Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
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For example, Jack Lillie, a musician, deferred to his ambitious wife, R. S., a gifted medium who traveled the American west lecturing about Spiritualist theology.Marissa C. Rhodes / Made by History, TIME, 8 Oct. 2024
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While most of the Empire was being immersed in a religion which was a synthesis of Roman institutions, Greek philosophy and Hebrew theism, a subset of the population of philosophical inclination was being drawn into a religious system descended from Hellenistic paganism.Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2012
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Another frequent topic of disbelief among Edge responders was theism and its anti-science offshoots---in particular the belief in intelligent design, and the belief that the Earth is only a few thousand years old.Jennifer Welsh, Discover Magazine, 23 Nov. 2010
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By contrast, animation foregrounds the pictorial, which is its own aesthetic doctrine.Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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Under the Arizona Constitution's separation of powers doctrine, those types of legal challenges could be filed only after voters approved the initiative.Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024
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This vague gesture in the direction of deism has no antecedent in the book, no moral or theological trajectory to make Bambi’s insight meaningful or satisfying.Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
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Those intuitions usually commended a staid deism and scorn for those whose beliefs extended any further.Jeffrey Collins, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2021
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“Polytheism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/polytheism. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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