History of religion

In the Platonic, Neopythagorean, Middle Platonic, and Neoplatonic schools of philosophy, the Demiurge () is an artisan-like figure responsible for fashioning and maintaining the physical universe. Various schools of Gnostics adopted the term demiurge.

field of history concerned with the development of religion

myth that purports to describe the origin of some feature of the natural or social world

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five or more largest and most widespread religious movements

declaration made by a government or ruler on freedom of religion

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The term ' (German for "primeval monotheism") or "primitive monotheism'" expresses the hypothesis of a monotheistic Urreligion, from which polytheistic religions allegedly degenerated. This evolutionary view of religious development contrasts diametrically with another evolutionary view on the development of religious thought: the hypothesis that religion progressed from simple forms to complex: first pre-animism, then animism, totemism, polytheism, and finally monotheism.

Religion of the Indo-Iranian peoples

history of thought based on the premise that the natural universe had a beginning, and came into being supernaturally