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Platonic Orientalism |
the ancient tendency to locate in the orient (the East) revelation and wisdom, thought to resemble or prefigure the teachings of Plato |
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Euhemerism |
the theory that the gods had originally been human beings who were worshipped in their own lives for their accomplishments and were later divinized as local gods |
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diffusion theory |
the hypothesis that the religious complex found in one place came from another place through migration, trade, war, or other forms of travel |
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anthropomorphism |
tendency to attribute human form to non-human entities like gods |
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Axial age |
that period of time, roughly between 800 and 200 BCE, during which human civilizations around the world developed radically new religious orientations |
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mystical |
dimension of a religious system that emphasizes an element of "secret" communion, connection, or identity between human nature and the ivine or the "really real" |
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non-local self |
the phenomenon of recognizing one's self most accurately reflected not in the culture and religion one was born in, but in a "foreign" framework |
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evolutionary monotheism |
the historical phenomenon of polytheistic systems developing into an accompanying monotheistic system |
