GRK 896: Images of Deities - Images of God - Images of the World. Polytheism and Monotheism in the Ancient World

研究培训小组的重点是近东和地中海世界多神论和一神教的多种形式关系。调查近东和古代的宗教和文化背景，多神论和一神教，包括单神教和单神教，被证明是不能令人满意的，使城市和国家的各种星座panthea在适当的方式。城市的泛神可能会获得一种单一崇拜的倾向，最后，一神教，而故意阐述henotheistic和一神教宗教可能会保留基本的多神教模式。各种宗教体系对世界的形象（“Weltbilder”）产生了重大影响。

The Research Training Group is focusing the multiform relationship of polytheism and monotheism in the Near Eastern and Mediterranean World. Investigating the religious and cultural settings of the Near East and the Antiquity, the terms polytheism and monotheism, including henotheism and monolatry, prove to be unsatisfactory to render the various constellations of city and state panthea in an adequate manner. Panthea of cities may acquire a tendency towards monolatry and, finally, monotheism, while deliberately elaborated henotheistic and monotheistic religions may preserve fundamental polytheistic patterns. The various religious systems bear a major impact on the images of the world ("Weltbilder") which have been developed.