polypantheism
noun/ˈpɒ.liˈpæn.θi.ɪz.əm/
Etymology Immediately from poly- + pantheism. Ultimately from poly- + pan- + Ancient Greek θεός (theós, “god, divine”) + -ism.
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Lifestyle, Religion Belief in multiple impersonal nontranscendent deities embodied by natural phenomena.
- This may be as simple as the atheist's world view, which actively denies the existence of any God and the validity of any religious system, or as complicated as the constantly evolving polypantheism which is intricately woven into the Hindu world view.1980, Walter Martin, Gretchen Passantino, The New Cults, page 128:
- A postrational passive principle philosophy in defense of feminist polypantheism2006, Indi Riverflow, Blues 4 Kali, →ISBN:
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- as noted, Tarde's theory is also a panpsychism, and in his own terms a 'myriatheism' (p. 25), which might be less elegantly paraphrased as polypantheism.2011, Gabriel de Tarde, Monadology and Sociology, page 73:
- The difficulty with polypantheism is the tendency to order, to classify.2014, Emma Restall Orr, Spirits of the Sacred Grove:
- Derived terms
- polypantheist, polypantheistic, polypantheistical, polypantheistically
- Related terms
- pandeism, panentheism, pantheism, theism