Among lay Hindus, some believe in different deities emanating from Brahman, while others practice more traditional polytheism and henotheism, focusing their worship on one or more personal deities, while granting the existence of others.
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Monolatry is distinguished from monotheism, which asserts the existence of only one god, and henotheism, a religious system in which the believer worships one god without denying that others may worship different gods with equal validity.
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Hinduism and Islam share some ritual practices such as fasting and pilgrimage, but differ in their views on apostasy, blasphemy, circumcision, consanguineous marriages, idol making, henotheism, social stratification, vegetarianism, and Ahimsa as a virtue.
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The philosophy of Ayyavazhi starts with the monism during creation and evolved as polytheism till the end of Dvapara Yuga, further evolved to henotheism till the incarnation of Vaikundar and then onwards turns panentheistic highlighting Vaikundar as the overall supreme, making it unique.
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Monotheism is distinguished from henotheism, a religious system in which the believer worships one god without denying that others may worship different gods with equal validity, and monolatrism, the recognition of the existence of many gods but with the consistent worship of only one deity.
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Hinduism ( by its nature as a regional rather than a doctrinal religious category ) is not exclusively monotheistic, and has been described as spanning a wide range of henotheism, monotheism, polytheism, panentheism, pantheism, pandeism, monism, atheism and nontheism etc.
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Originally, the faith had an essentially trinitarian conception of God, which evolved by the death of founder Joseph Smith, Jr . into a henotheism implying a vast hierarchy of gods into which humans have a place if they progress to achieve a high state of perfection and glory.
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Hymns such as the above in Mandala 1 led scholars such as Max Muller to describe the theology of Vedic religion as a form of henotheism . thereby asserting that the essence of the deities was unitary ( " ekam " ), and the deities were nothing but pluralistic manifestations of the same concept of the divine ( God ).
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He argues that " Even the Catholic Church shows polytheistic aspects with the'worshipping'of the saints . " On the other hand, he complains, monotheistic missionaries and scholars were eager to see a proto-monotheism or at least henotheism in polytheistic religions, for example, when taking from the Chinese pair of Sky and Earth only one part and calling it the " King of Heaven ", as Matteo Ricci did.
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Can someone please take a look at these diffs, and figure out how to deal with this . user : VedicScience has been engaged in a whole lot of non-productive character assaults on talk : henotheism, against various editors ( not really me, except for a couple of snipes ) . see : his first post there, [ http : / / en . wikipedia . org / w / index . php ? title = Talk : Henotheism & diff = next & oldid = 243294424, [ http : / / en . wikipedia . org / w / index . php ? title = Talk : Henotheism & diff = next & oldid = 243346469, [ http : / / en . wikipedia . org / w / index . php ? title = Talk : Henotheism & diff = next & oldid = 243498687 this in response to me warning him about attacking other editors, this after I pointed him to the talk page guidelines, and explained ( a bit sharply, I'll admit ) that it was unacceptable behavior.
