The Deities Are Many
Subtitle: A Polytheistic Theology (S U N Y Series in Religious Studies)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: March 3, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 155
ISBN-13: 9780791463871
Subjects: Theology; Religion - World Religions; Religion; Comparative Religion; Theism; Polytheism; Religions
First sentence: There are innumerable recordings of myths and stories about the deities, a vast literature of teachings from the goddesses and gods, many works on the rituals and other religious behaviors that relate ourselves to the polytheistic numinous realm, a few philosophical treatises on the logical implications of deities, but no written works that seek systematically to explain the hermeneutics of polytheism in general, rather than within specific cultural traditions.