Meaning of allotheism | Babel Free

Definitions

Worship of a god or gods that are foreign to one's own land.

uncountable

Examples

“I consider⟳ that in the first commandment where atheism and polytheism and allotheism are forbidden directly and principally.”

“But we should not forget⟳ that the world was yet too young to have⟳ arrived at the rigid and sharply-defined systems of polytheism or allotheism to which we are accustomed.”

“The inhabitants, also, of Ur had fallen into polytheism, or, if we may so speak⟳, allotheism, the worship⟳ of other gods.”

“There is no allotheism in Islam. Muslims do not anthropomorphise or, conversely, encourage⟳ belief in anthropolatry.”

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