Polytheism | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-08

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00:01:48 1 Terminology
00:02:35 2 Soft polytheism versus hard polytheism
00:03:38 3 Gods and divinity
00:04:33 4 Types of deities
00:05:19 5 Mythology and religion
00:06:24 6 Historical polytheism
00:09:40 6.1 Ancient Greece
00:11:00 7 Folk religion
00:12:16 8 Contemporary world religions
00:12:26 8.1 Buddhism and Shinto
00:14:41 8.2 Christianity
00:16:47 8.2.1 Mormonism
00:19:15 8.3 Hinduism
00:24:11 8.4 Reconstructionism
00:24:58 8.5 Serer religion
00:25:40 9 Neopaganism
00:26:26 9.1 Wicca
00:26:57 10 Use as a term of abuse
00:27:27 11 Polydeism
00:28:11 11.1 History of the term
00:30:19 11.2 Etymologically disjunctive uses of the term



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Polytheism (from Greek πολυθεϊσμός, polytheismos) is the worship of or belief in multiple deities, which are usually assembled into a pantheon of gods and goddesses, along with their own religions and rituals. In most religions which accept polytheism, the different gods and goddesses are representations of forces of nature or ancestral principles, and can be viewed either as autonomous or as aspects or emanations of a creator deity or transcendental absolute principle (monistic theologies), which manifests immanently in nature (panentheistic and pantheistic theologies). Most of the  polytheistic deities of ancient religions, with the notable exceptions of the Ancient Egyptian and Hindu deities, were conceived as having physical bodies. 
Polytheism is a type of theism. Within theism, it contrasts with monotheism, the belief in a singular God, in most cases transcendent. Polytheists do not always worship all the gods equally, but they can be henotheists, specializing in the worship of one particular deity. Other polytheists can be kathenotheists, worshiping different deities at different times.
Polytheism was the typical form of religion during the Bronze Age and Iron Age up to the Axial Age and the development of Abrahamic religions, the latter of which enforced strict monotheism. It is well documented in historical religions of Classical antiquity, especially ancient Greek religion and ancient Roman religion, and after the decline of Greco-Roman polytheism in tribal religions such as Germanic paganism or Slavic paganism.
Important polytheistic religions practiced today include Chinese traditional religion, Hinduism, Japanese Shinto, Santeria, and various neopagan faiths.