Helpful Vocabulary
- Monotheism: Belief that there is one God.
- Polytheism: Belief in many Gods.
- Pantheism: Belief that all things in the universe are God, or that God is the forces of the universe.
- Deism: Belief that the universe was created by a God who does not intervene in it.
- Pandeism: Belief that God created the universe and became it, and is no longer distinguishable from or able to act upon the universe.
- Animism: Belief that plants, animals and other objects possess a soul.
- Agnosticism: Belief that whether or not there is a God is unknowable.
- Atheism: Belief that there is no God.
- Dharmic Religion: religious traditions from the Indian subcontinent.
- Abrahamic Religion: monotheistic religions which believe God revealed Himself to Abraham.
- Syncretism: The combination of traditions and practices from multiple different religions.