Sentence examples for origin of polytheism from inspiring English sources

Interest in these ancient Indian texts was intense among Europeans and Americans in that earlier reports had suggested that these represented a world outlook from the "dawn of humanity" and that the origin of polytheism lay in nature worship.

What, then, is the origin of polytheism?

The weakness of polytheism is especially revealed in the realm of questions about the ultimate origin of things, whereas monotheism runs into difficulties in trying to answer the question concerning the origin of evil in a universe under the government of one god.

I asked whether Mormon theology was a form of polytheism.

The inauguration of Barack Obama, he said, changes nothing; democracy is a form of "polytheism".

The animal form as a representation of the divine (theriomorphism, or zoomorphism) is characteristic of polytheism.

But, as a symbol of polytheism, it was also a glaring target to Isis.

A statement circulated on social media said the attack had targeted a "den of polytheism".

The current textbooks do not spare most Muslims from the accusations of polytheism, deviance, hypocrisy, and outright apostasy.

They accuse them of polytheism and unbelief for revering the Sufi sheikhs and building mosques at their shrines.

"Praise to God who enabled us and the soldiers of Islamic State to remove the signs of polytheism," says another militant near the end of the video.