Allotheism

Quick meaning: Allotheism is a noun meaning Worship of a god or gods that are foreign to one's own land.

Meaning

Worship of a god or gods that are foreign to one's own land.

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include theolatry, idololatry, demolatry, topolatry, idolatry, multitheism.

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