polypantheism
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Etymology edit
Immediately from poly- + pantheism. Ultimately from poly- + pan- + Ancient Greek θεός (theós, “god, divine”) + -ism.
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Noun edit
polypantheism (uncountable)
- (religion) Belief in multiple impersonal nontranscendent deities embodied by natural phenomena.
- 1980, Walter Martin, Gretchen Passantino, The New Cults, page 128:
- This may be as simple as the atheist's world view, which actively denies the existence of any God and the validity of any religious system, or as complicated as the constantly evolving polypantheism which is intricately woven into the Hindu world view.
- 2006, Indi Riverflow, Blues 4 Kali, →ISBN:
- A postrational passive principle philosophy in defense of feminist polypantheism
- 2011, Gabriel de Tarde, Monadology and Sociology, page 73:
- as noted, Tarde's theory is also a panpsychism, and in his own terms a 'myriatheism' (p. 25), which might be less elegantly paraphrased as polypantheism.
- 2014, Emma Restall Orr, Spirits of the Sacred Grove:
- The difficulty with polypantheism is the tendency to order, to classify.