Folk religion
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Folk religion, traditional religion, or vernacular religion comprises, according to religious studies and folkloristics, various forms and expressions of religion that are distinct from the doctrines
Shrine of Bixia at Mount Tai, Shandong, associated with Chinese folk religion
A Filipino Catholic home altar in Morden, Manitoba
This picture was taken at a Malaysian Chinese home. This altar is dedicated to the three Pure Land sages, Avalokitesvara, and Sathya Sai Baba. On the left of the altar is a glass filled with rice. Joss sticks are stuck into it after the ancestors are invited to partake in the offering of food specially prepared for them on the Hungry Ghost festival prayers.
Gauchito Gil (left) and San La Muerte (right), two examples of Argentine folk saints
Polytheism
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Polytheism is the belief in or worship of more than one deity, a type of theism; it contrasts with monotheism, the belief in only one deity that is, in most cases, transcendent. The term was coined by
Egyptian gods in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Procession of the Twelve Olympians
Bulul statues serve as avatars of rice deities in the Anitist beliefs of the Ifugao in the Philippines.
It is sometimes claimed that Christianity is not truly monotheistic because of its idea of the Trinity