RELG 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Christian Symbolism, Numen, Pantheism
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Monotheism- belief in and worship of a single god: monothetic defining something based on a singular characteristic. Primordial monotheism theory that all religions have source in a universal belief in singular good. Polytheism belief in and worship of multiple goods. Pantheism reality ins divinity, in all its multiform aspects no personal gods. Naturism theory that states all religion stemmed from fear of and dependence on natural forces: led to the names of such forces becoming gods nomen became numen. Paganism a contested term traditionally referring to collections of practices outside of accepted traditions: recently come to mean religious traditions connected with nature-worship (i. e. neo-pagans; wiccans; goddess religions) Elementary forms of religious life (1912: study of totemism. Relation of a clan to a clan symbol a totem exclusive to them. Belonging to a clan and identifying that clan with a determined species of material things which it believes it has very particular relations.
