polydeism

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Almost all women-led religions relate to many spirits, gods, or ancestors—even in cultural contexts in which the mainstream religion is monotheistic... Two women- led religions, the Shakers and Christian Science, do not fit this polydeistic pattern. Susan Sered, Women of the Sacred Groves: Divine Priestesses of Okinawa (1999) p. 62.

Belief in the existence of many gods who collectively set the universe in motion, then ceased to interact with it
polytheism
Belief of the existence of many gods who collectively set the universe in motion, then ceased to interact with it
polydeism
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