-isms and such

Animism -belief systems that attribute souls to animals, plants, and other non human entities in addition to humans.

Deism -supreme god, takes no roll in universal events.

Duotheism -two gods, complementary and equal

Ditheism -two gods, oppose each other and are equal

Henotheism -belief in and worship of one God without at the same time denying that others can with equal truth worship different gods

Monism -belief that everything can be taken down to one thing. ranging from the mind is not real to the physical is not real.

Monolatry -recognize existence of many gods, worship only one.

Monotheism -only one god. may have multiple facets of being. Christian -father, son, holy ghost.

Pandeism -god precedes the universe and is the universes creator but currently the universe is god but it will one day return to being only god and no universe.

Panentheism -god is the universe, plus extends beyond the universe. all nature is a part of god but god is not solely nature.

Pantheism -god is nature,

Polytheism -worship of multiple gods

Transtheism -an Absolute exists in trancendence over the gods.

Fideism -faith unaffected by reason, reason and rationality dont matter. only faith and revelations matter.

Fetishism -belief that an object has powers

Naturalism - everything labeled ’supernatural’ really isnt supernatural.

Pluralism - the universe is made up of several substances. -ex: greek -earth, water, fire, air.

Dualism -philosophy that some mental phenomena are non physical and related directly to the soul.

Shamanism -spirits effect the world, relationships can be formed, animals can bear omens, spirits can be good or bad.

Theism - deities exist, immanent yet trancendant; they are omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent

Nontheism -reject possibility of deities, atheism and agnostism are nontheistic. Not the same as irreligion.

Immanence - divine being acts within the universe

Trancendence - divine being is beyond the physical

Misotheism -hatred of gods

Polydeism -multiple gods, none of which are interested in the universe anymore.

Humanism -religion should not effect human affairs

Archetypalism - new view by neo pagans that gods are part of humanities joint unconsciousness, or ’oversoul’.

Atheism - as an explicit position, can be either the affirmation of the nonexistence of gods, or the rejection of theism. It is also defined more broadly as synonymous with any form of nontheism, including the simple absence of belief in deities.

Agnosticism - is the philosophical view that the truth value of certain claims — particularly metaphysical claims regarding theology, afterlife or the existence of God, gods, deities, or even ultimate reality — is unknown or, depending on the form of agnosticism, inherently impossible to prove or disprove.

Ietsism - An unspecified belief in some higher force , a range of beliefs held by people who, on the one hand, inwardly suspect - or indeed believe - that there is “More between Heaven and Earth” than we know about, but on the other hand do not necessarily accept or subscribe to the established belief system, dogma or view of the nature of God offered by any particular religion.

Ignosticism - the theological position that every other theological position (including agnosticism) assumes too much about the concept of God and many other theological concepts. An ignostic cannot even say whether he is a theist or a nontheist until a better definition of theism is put forth.

Gnosticism - a diverse, syncretistic religious movement consisting of various belief systems generally united in the teaching that humans are divine souls trapped in a material world created by an imperfect god, the demiurge, who is frequently identified with the Abrahamic God, called "Yahweh" or "Jahveh", for the true name of God is the ineffable tetragrammaton.

Nihilism - They claim that there is no reasonable proof or argument for the existence of a higher ruler or creator, or posit that even if a higher ruler or creator exists, humanity has no moral obligation to worship them.

Solipsism - an epistemological or metaphysical position that knowledge of anything outside the mind is unjustified.

Omnitheism- also called soft polytheism, all gods are a smaller reflection of one supreme divine being.

Spiritism - all souls are fragments of God

"ron"ism - deities are a manifestation of their believers energies.

copied from Ajay