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Many people worship not just one but many gods. Yet a relentless prejudice against polytheism denies legitimacy to some of the world's oldest and richest religious traditions. In her examination of polytheistic cultures both ancient and contemporary--those of Greece and Rome, the Bible and the Quran, as well as modern India--Page duBois refutes the idea that the worship of multiple gods naturally evolves over time into the "higher" belief in a single deity. In A Million and One Gods, she shows that polytheism has endured intact for millennia even in the West, despite the many hidden ways that monotheistic thought continues to shape Western outlooks. In English usage, the word "polytheism" comes from the seventeenth-century writings of Samuel Purchas. It was pejorative from the beginning--a word to distinguish the belief system of backward peoples from the more theologically advanced religion of Protestant Christians. Today, when monotheistic fundamentalisms too often drive people to commit violent acts, polytheism remains a scandalous presence in societies still oriented according to Jewish, Christian, and Muslim beliefs. Even in the multicultural milieus of twenty-first-century America and Great Britain, polytheism finds itself marginalized. Yet it persists, perhaps because polytheism corresponds to unconscious needs and deeply held values of tolerance, diversity, and equality that are central to civilized societies.

Polytheism --- Polytheism. --- 291.14 --- 141.411 --- God --- Monotheism --- Pantheism --- Religion --- Religions --- Theism --- Indeling der godsdiensten: monotheïsme; polytheïsme --- Polytheïsme --- Polythéisme. --- Polytheismus. --- 141.411 Polytheïsme

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polythéisme --- * psychologie --- Polytheism --- Spiritual life --- Psychology, Religious --- Christianity

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Coutumes --- Gebruiken --- Godsdiensten --- Mythologie --- Religions --- 291.14 --- 211.219 --- Indeling der godsdiensten: mystieke, openbaringsgodsdiensten --- Monotheïsme; polytheïsme; monisme (theodicee) --- 211.219 Monotheïsme; polytheïsme; monisme (theodicee) --- 291.14 Godsdiensten van natuurvolkeren en cultuurvolkeren --- 291.14 Indeling der godsdiensten: monotheïsme; polytheïsme --- 291.14 Indeling der godsdiensten: mystieke, openbaringsgodsdiensten --- Godsdiensten van natuurvolkeren en cultuurvolkeren --- Indeling der godsdiensten: monotheïsme; polytheïsme --- Monotheism --- History

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Religions --- Christianity --- Monotheism --- Islam --- Judaism --- Relations --- 291.14 --- Indeling der godsdiensten: monotheïsme; polytheïsme --- Religions - Relations

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La 4e de couv. indique : "Le port de Rome, Ostie, situé au sud de l'embouchure du Tibre, constitue un terrain exceptionnel pour étudier la vie religieuse d'une cité antique. Depuis la fondation de la colonie romaine à la fin du IVe siècle avant notre ère, dieux et hommes cohabitent dans la cité. Leur destin commun durera jusqu'aux dernières attestations de cultes polythéistes à la fin du Ve siècle. Port militaire sous la République, ayant un rôle fondamental dans l'approvisionnement de la capitale, dès le IIe siècle avant notre ère, Ostie est une cité à la fois particulière et exemplaire. Elle représente un laboratoire extraordinaire pour qui veut connaître les cultes durant l'Antiquité : les communautés et individus y pratiquent des cultes divers et variés, "ancestraux" ou "étrangers". Les dieux font battre le coeur de la ville, comme le montre la documentation, particulièrement pour les premiers siècles de notre ère, lorsque cohabitent dévots des dieux, juifs et chrétiens".

Ostia (Extinct city) --- Ostia (Ancient city) --- Italy --- Religion. --- Antiquities. --- Antiquities --- Polythéisme -- Italie -- Ostie (ville ancienne)