Editing Monotheism (section)

==Narrow and wide monotheism==
"Narrow monotheism" is a religion that believes in only one deity, disallowing the possibility of there being other deities. "Wide monotheism" is a religion that believes in only one supreme deity, allowing the possibility of there being other lesser deities. A narrow monotheistic religion will often regard other monotheistic religions as worshipping its own specific deity under a different name or form (hence the Abrahamic religions believe they worship the same one God). A wide monotheistic religion will often regard other monotheistic religions as worshipping deities lesser than its own specific deitiy (hence Atenism believes Yahweh to be a lesser deity to Aten). Examples of narrow monotheist religions includes: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Sikhism, and Baháʼí Faith. Examples of wide monotheism include: Atenism, Native American worship of the Great Spirit, Hinduism, Chiniese religions, Tengrism, Mandaeism, Rastafari, Yazidism, Zoroastrianism, Proto-Indo-European religion, Hellenistic religion, and Andaman Islands religion.<ref name="Goodman 2010">{{cite book |last=Noort |first=Ed |year=2010 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U-R5DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA3 |chapter=Abraham and the Nations |editor1-last=Goodman |editor1-first=Martin |editor1-link=Martin Goodman (historian) |editor2-last=van Kooten |editor2-first=George H. |editor3-last=van Ruiten |editor3-first=Jacques T.A.G.M. |title=Abraham, the Nations, and the Hagarites: Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Perspectives on Kinship with Abraham |location=[[Leiden]] and [[Boston]] |publisher=[[Brill Publishers]] |series=Themes in Biblical Narrative: Jewish and Christian Traditions |volume=13 |pages=3–33 |doi=10.1163/9789004216495_003 |isbn=978-90-04-21649-5 |issn=1388-3909}}</ref><ref name="Overview of beliefs and doctrines of Sikhism, including religious authority, God, reincarnation, and church and state.">{{cite web |url=http://www.religionfacts.com/sikhism/beliefs.htm |title=Sikh Beliefs and Doctrine |publisher=ReligionFacts |access-date=2012-06-05 |archive-date=2012-06-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120612050928/http://www.religionfacts.com/sikhism/beliefs.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="A Short Introduction to Sikhism">{{cite web |url=http://www.multifaithcentre.org/sikhism/71-a-short-introduction-to-sikhism- |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727101929/http://www.multifaithcentre.org/sikhism/71-a-short-introduction-to-sikhism- |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-07-27 |title=A Short Introduction to Sikhism |publisher=Multifaithcentre.org |access-date=2012-06-05 }}</ref><ref>Darnell, J. C., & Manassa, C. (2007). Tutankhamun's Armies: Battle and conquest during ancient Egypt's Late Eighteenth Dynasty. John Wiley & Sons.</ref><ref name=Ostler>Ostler, Jeffry. The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee. Cambridge University Press, Jul 5, 2004. {{ISBN|0521605903}}, pg 26.</ref><ref name="CONCEPT OF GOD IN HINDUISM by Dr Naik">{{cite web |url=http://www.islam101.com/religions/hinduism/conceptOfGod.htm |title=Concept Of God In Hinduism By Dr Naik |publisher=Islam101.com |access-date=2012-06-05 |archive-date=2012-04-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120429092129/http://www.islam101.com/religions/hinduism/conceptOfGod.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Dubs|first=Homer H.|date=1959|title=Theism and Naturalism in Ancient Chinese Philosophy|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1397096|journal=Philosophy East and West|volume=9|issue=3/4|pages=163–172|doi=10.2307/1397096|jstor=1397096|issn=0031-8221|quote="It does not necessarily imply monotheism, however, since, in addition to the Supreme High-god or Heaven, there were also the ordinary gods (shen) and the ancestral spirits (guei), all of whom were worshipped in the Jou royal cult."|access-date=2022-02-20|archive-date=2022-02-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220220041158/https://www.jstor.org/stable/1397096|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Asatrian-Arakelova 2014"/><ref name="Allison 2017"/><ref>{{cite book|last1=Mallory|first1=J. P.|last2=Adams|first2=D.Q.|title=The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World|date=2006|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford, England|isbn=978-0-19-929668-2|pages=408–411 and 423–434}}</ref><ref name="Broken123">{{cite book|last1=Schürmann|first1=Reiner|last2=Lily|first2=Reginald|title=Broken Hegemonies|date=2003|publisher=Indiana University Press|location=Bloomington, Indiana|isbn=0-253-34144-2|pages=143–144|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4eRv1DTW_KoC&q=Henology&pg=PA109|access-date=25 March 2017}}</ref>