allotheism

English

Etymology

From allo- +‎ theism.

Noun

allotheism (uncountable)

1. Worship of a god or gods that are foreign to one's own land.
   • 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in All Her General Measures; […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] James Flesher, for Richard Royston […], →OCLC:

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

   • 1864, James Gracey Murphy, Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Genesis, page 464:

     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.

   • 1879, John Heyl Vincent, The lesson commentary on the International lessons for 1880, page 164:

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

   • 1984, Akbar S. Ahmed, David M. Hart, Islam in Tribal Societies: From the Atlas to the Indus, page 8:

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

Derived terms

• allotheist
• allotheists
• allotheistic
• allotheistical
• allotheistically

See also

• theism
• polytheism