How To Use Polytheistic In A Sentence
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On the surface it may appear to be polytheistic with many gods and objects worshipped in various forms.
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It is interesting that in animist, totemistic and polytheistic belief systems there are deities and powers associated with the branches of the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
The Two Trees
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I suppose I am formally polytheistic, philosophically pantheistic, and intellectually agnostic (or maybe I would call myself a autotheist in the sense of believing that the gods are part of the self), yet I spend an hour every day studying subjects related to my religion (history, anthropology, etc).
The Volokh Conspiracy » Considering a Candidate’s Religion:
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That excludes polytheistic Americans like Hindus, nontheistic Buddhists and the 16 percent of us with no religious affiliation.
Roy Speckhardt: Choosing Faith Over Freedom
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Their polytheistic view influenced every aspect of their daily lives.
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It may be polytheistically or it may be monotheistically conceived of.
A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy
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I'd probably frame it more in terms of a clash of belief systems: monotheistic Christianity straitjacketing polytheistic animism into more polarised gender roles, and introducing the concept of sin.
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A CIVILIZATION B SCIENCE/TECH C GOVERNMENT D RELIGION E SOCIOECONOMICS A Akkad B metallurgy walled cities irrigation C strong centraL authority controlled several city-states and kept peace (for a while) quelled dissent with violence D polytheistic tradition centered on city gods, fertility goddess and harvest deities hepatoscopy (examining sheep livers for omens)
When The Comet Flew Through Ancient Evenings
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Many Hindus would disagree with you of course that their religion is polytheistic.
Matthew Yglesias » The Gaza Tunnels
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The emperor had begun to think polytheistic cult a veneration of evil spirits and therefore perhaps a danger to his realm.
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So long as natural action was supposed to be in the immediate control of numerous gods and demigods, so long, in a word, as the explanation of Nature was what we term polytheistic, this association of science with other forms of learning was not only natural but inevitable.
Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography
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The pre-Christian religion of the Fijians was both animistic and polytheistic, and included a cult of chiefly ancestors.
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The religion of the mudang was polytheistic and somewhat animistic.
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There is considerable evidence that greater equality prevailed between women and men in the cult of some ancient polytheistic communities.
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The ancient Yemenis were polytheistic - they worshiped many different goddesses and gods.
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Jainism, which we describe as atheistic, and the colourless respectable religion of educated Chinese, become in their outward manifestations unblushingly polytheistic.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1
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So we've a representative of a polytheistic society next to the peaceful and meditative Rothko and a load of outsider-art-influenced herberts.
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Though it was to only last his lifetime, as Tutankhaten who succeeded Akhenaton quickly changed his name to Tutankhamun or Tutankhamen and led the Egyptians back to polytheistic or multi God/Goddess beliefs.
Legends of the Sun
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Clearly Paul uses this as a connecting platform, without accepting a panentheistic/polytheistic/pluralist paradigm, as one can clearly glean by the immediate and larger context of Acts.
Sunday School: Genesis 1:1-2:3
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These sculptural elements, which have polytheistic titles like "Purging Cyclops Being" and "Oval Tree Double Owls Oceania," are a little too friendly and puppetlike to stir the psyche.
NYT > Home Page
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Psalm 82: 8, the most 'polytheistic' of passages in the Hebrew Bible, the idea of a real kinship of nature between 'the Most High' and his 'sons', the gods, is already contradicted by the former's judgment that the latter 'will die like humans' (Ps. 82: 7).
Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth
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Gradually, the people began to adopt polytheistic ideas, and worship spirits and many different gods.
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Williams also criticized the Governor for sitting cross-legged with a "dot on his forehead," and described the ceremony as "polytheistic.
Mike Ghouse: Senator Williams' Remarks Offended Hindus
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(Granted, there are many other strands in the tapestry of religion, and granted, I've entirely overlooked the polytheistic and nontheistic religions, such as Hinduism and some forms of Buddhism, but in that short list above, we encompass more than half the world's population, and well over half its believers.)
Clay Farris Naff: Can Evolution Tell Us What God Wants?
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There is Christianity, which, by revealing the truth, has limited the license of human reason; there is that human reason which resists revelation as a bondage -- which insists upon being atheistical, or polytheistical, or pantheistical -- which looks upon the requirements of obedience, justice, truth, and purity, as limitations of human freedom.
Lothair
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You know all those deities -- the gods and goddesses that cause outsiders to think Hinduism is polytheistic?
Philip Goldberg: Colbert: Try Hinduism For Lent
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Truly polytheistic Europagan groups (such as the druids) are much smaller, despite the fact that they are often older.
Emasculation not required at SF Novelists
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While Buddhism is deemed nontheistic, the Vedas are regarded as polytheistic, and the Bible is monotheistic, we have seen that the cosmogonies of Vajrayana Buddhism, Vedanta, and Neoplatonic Christianity have so much in common that they could almost be regarded as varying interpretations of a single theory.
C for Confusion!
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Some modern-day pagans are polytheistic, meaning they believe in many gods; some are monotheistic (one god); and others are pantheists, or they believe that God is everything and everything is God, according to Web sites devoted to the subject.
Kentucky.com: Homepage
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Some Indologists labeled the Hinduism they encountered polytheistic; others even coined new terms, like henotheism, to describe this baffling array of spiritual traditions.
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How did Christianity become mixed with polytheistic beliefs?
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There was a polytheistic religion, with a supreme god to whom the king had a specially intimate relation.
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Some of our sources are Shiites and Sunnis from non-Wahhabi traditions -- people condemned as "polytheistic" or "deviant" or "bad" in these texts -- others are simply frustrated that these books do so little to prepare young students for the modern world.
This is a Saudi textbook. (After the intolerance was removed.)
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In light of the transparently humanist program of the tempietti — a Christian chapel juxtaposed with "polytheistic" muses — the phrase "Regna Poly" stands out, especially considering the soon-to-be-published Hypnerotomachia poliphilo, a work dedicated to Guidobaldo da Montefeltro. back
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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Within a piece of relatively popular literature, an author could speak of supernatural causes both monotheistically and polytheistically.
