Hinduism: Trimurti
(From left) Vishnu, Shiva, and Brahma, the three Hindu gods of the Trimurti.
polytheism
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- pluralism and monism
- nature religion
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- god
polytheism, the belief in many gods. Polytheism characterizes virtually all religions other than Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, which share a common tradition of monotheism, the belief in one God. Sometimes above the many gods a polytheistic religion will have a supreme creator and focus of devotion, as in certain phases of Hinduism (there is also the tendency to identify the many gods as so many aspects of the Supreme Being); sometimes the gods are considered as less important than some higher goal, state, or saviour, as in Buddhism; sometimes one god will prove more dominant than the others without attaining ...(100 of 4143 words)