By the mid-19th century, however, it had acquired the second, broader meaning of a phenomenon occurring not only in religion but in all areas of human thought and action, including daily life, the arts, and even sciences. ... anthropomorphic polytheism (religion)
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on anthropomorphic polytheism (religion), ...emotions. At a higher stage of nature religions is therianthropic polytheism, in which the deities are normally of mixed animal and human composition. ... classification in religion (in classification of religions: Morphological)
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Nineteenth-century German philosopher G. W. F. Hegel held that Greek anthropomorphic religion represented an improvement over the worship of gods in the shape of animals, a practice called theriomorphism (Greek therion,"animal";
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Mythologies of ancient peoples were almost entirely concerned with anthropomorphic gods. The Greek gods such as Zeus and Apollo often were depicted in anthropomorphic forms. The avatars of the Hindu god Vishnu possessed human forms and qualities.
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Introduction to the Afterlife; A Brief History of Greco-Roman Religion ... II. Anthropomorphic religion ... 1) development of ethical and religious thought about the anthropomorphic gods, especially Zeus, Apollo and Athena (the road taken by Aeschylus & Sophocles.
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Animals in Religion ... These stories may have served to assimilate local animal cults into the dominant anthropomorphic religion. ... Male anthropomorphic deities ruled in an urban setting. In much the same way, early industrial societies conceived their God as a machine. These changes raise a number of questions:
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Hence the regression to anthropomorphic religion (from which the sages of the Axial age, and, later, Mohammed were trying to free us) and such practices as petitionary prayer* which has become so widespread that hardly anyone has noticed that it’s a perversion – and those who have, like Neale Donald Walsch,
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Comic Book Religion Database (Religion of Super-Heroes) (Religion in Comics) ... ; Religion of Comic Book Characters; Selected Major Characters ... anthropomorphic animals...
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The list of purportedly anthropomorphic sites could be continued. But regardless of the number of examples presented, ... 1985, Mulk 1994) have pointed out, Saami religion and religious practice was deeply rooted in space and landscape, enacted through topographic myths and sacred sites. The sieidi ;
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