Various theistic positions can involve belief in a God or "gods". They include: * Henotheism, belief in the supremacy of one god without denying the existence of others. * Monotheism, the doctrine or belief that there is only one deity. *

Panentheism Panentheism ("all in God", from the Greek language, Greek grc, πᾶν, pân, all, label=none, grc, ἐν, en, in, label=none and grc, Θεός, Theós, God, label=none) is the belief that the Divinity, divine intersects every part of Univers ...

, the belief that a deity is a part of the universe as well as transcending it. * Pantheism, a doctrine identifying the deity with the universe and its phenomena. * Polytheism, the worship of or belief in more than one god. *

idolism Idolatry is the worship of a cult image or "idol" as though it were God. In Abrahamic religions (namely Judaism, Samaritanism, Christianity, the Baháʼí Faith, and Islam) idolatry connotes the worship of something or someone other than the Ab ...

, the belief in or worship of idols. These positions are all contrasted by

atheism Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there no d ...

, the non-belief in god.

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