different between anthropomorphise vs allotheism

English

Verb

anthropomorphise (third-person singular simple present anthropomorphises, present participle anthropomorphising, simple past and past participle anthropomorphised)

1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of anthropomorphize.

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

     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.

   • 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

See also

• theism
• polytheism