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One of the earliest known idols worshiped by humans. From Jericho, in modern-day Palestinian Territories. Pre-pottery Neolithic. Jordan Archaeological Museum, Amman, Jordan Reproduction of the Athena Parthenos statue at the original size in the Parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee Heathen altar for Haustblot in Björkö, Sweden; the larger wooden idol represents the god Frey
Moses Indignant at the Golden Calf, painting by William Blake, 1799–1800. Idolatry is the worship of an idol as though it were a deity. [1] [2] [3] In Abrahamic religions (namely Judaism, Samaritanism, Christianity, Islam, and the BaháΚΌí Faith) idolatry connotes the worship of something or someone other than the Abrahamic God as if it were God.
Judaism holds that idolatry is not limited to the worship of an idol itself, but also worship involving any artistic representations of God. [1] The prohibition is epitomized by the first two "words" of the decalogue: I am the Lord thy God , Thou shalt have no other gods before me , and Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image or any ...
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Heathen altar for Haustblot in Björkö, Sweden.The larger wooden idol represents the god Frey.. Modern paganism, also known as contemporary paganism [1] and neopaganism, [2] spans a range of new religious movements variously influenced by the beliefs of pre-modern peoples across Europe, North Africa, and the Near East.
In the case of an image of a saint, the worship would not be latria but rather dulia, while the Blessed Virgin Mary receives hyperdulia. The worship of whatever type, latria, hyperdulia, or dulia, can be considered to go through the icon, image, or statue: "The honor given to an image reaches to the prototype" (St. John Damascene in Summa ³).
While celebrity worship is considered a continuum, it is measured by a questionnaire called the Celebrity Attitude Scale, co-created by McCutcheon in 2002, which breaks behaviors down into three ...
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