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The Deities Are Many is a lively and learned introduction to polytheism. Drawing from both his scholarly research and his personal experience, author Jordan Paper is the ideal guide into this milieu. Paper was drawn to polytheism through his love of nature, seeing it as a source of the divine. In this book he focuses on Chinese and Native American religious traditions, as well as West African, African-Brazilian, Hindu, Polynesian, and circum-Polar traditions, to describe the theology of polytheism. The book provides a topology of polytheistic deities, focusing on the cosmic couple, Father Sky and Mother Earth; animal, plant, and mineral deities; ancestral spirits; divine ghosts; and culture heroes and tricksters. Paper also shows how monotheists misunderstand polytheism and provides a polytheist perspective on what it means to be human when the "deities are many." This is a fascinating, illuminating book, especially for those raised in monotheistic societies.

Religions. --- Polytheism. --- Comparative religion --- Denominations, Religious --- Religion, Comparative --- Religions, Comparative --- Religious denominations --- World religions --- Civilization --- Gods --- Religion --- God --- Monotheism --- Pantheism --- Religions --- Theism --- Polytheism --- 291.14 --- Indeling der godsdiensten: mystieke, openbaringsgodsdiensten --- 291.14 Godsdiensten van natuurvolkeren en cultuurvolkeren --- 291.14 Indeling der godsdiensten: monotheïsme; polytheïsme --- 291.14 Indeling der godsdiensten: mystieke, openbaringsgodsdiensten --- Godsdiensten van natuurvolkeren en cultuurvolkeren --- Indeling der godsdiensten: monotheïsme; polytheïsme

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« Les trois monothéismes, animés par une même pulsion de mort généalogique, partagent une série de mépris identiques : haine de la raison et de l'intelligence ; haine de la liberté ; haine de tous les livres au nom d'un seul ; haine de la vie ; haine de la sexualité, des femmes et du plaisir ; haine du féminin ; haine des corps, des désirs, des pulsions. En lieu et place et de tout cela, judaïsme, christianisme et islam défendent : la foi et la croyance, l'obéissance et la soumission, le goût de la mort et la passion de l'au-delà, l'ange asexué et la chasteté, la virginité et la fidélité monogamique, l'épouse et la mère, l'âme e l'esprit. Autant dire la vie crucifiée et le néant célébré? » M.O. En philosophie, il y eut jadis une époque « Mort de Dieu ». La nôtre, ajoute Michel Onfray, serait plutôt celle de son retour. D'où l'urgence, selon lui, d'un athéisme argumenté, construit, solide et militant.

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