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The worship of one god without denying the existence of other gods.

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  • From this polytheistic position the people took a step forward to a state of mind which Professor Max Muller calls henotheism; that is, they believed in the real...
  • The concept of "henotheism" (in which any one of various deities may be singled out for worship as the Supreme Being) has been proposed to describe Hinduism.
  • That's henotheism: essentially, belief in tribal gods.
  • It doesn't matter if it is monotheism, polytheism, or henotheism.
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