====== Theisms ======

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^ This is a **very** draft document.  ^
| I recently ((//recently// is and will remain relative, as this text matures or doesn't.)) got to wondering and speculating on the advent of monotheism, and its seeming dominance of polytheisms. Related questions include the compatibility of belief in astrology with atheism. My first encounter with the word and concept of apatheism came afterward.  |

Draft introductory thoughts and background are stored elsewhere, and will be added soon.

==== Some first links ====


Some of the first interesting Internet search results are:

  * [[http://www.englishsabla.com/forum/showthread.php?t=61832|Zoroastrianism - the first monotheism?]] -- a personal view (short) on a forum
  * [[http://www.custance.org/|Perspectives on Science and Scripture]] by Arthur Custance? At the moment, I don't recall which text in this set drew my attention. 
  * [[http://www.criticaltheoryofreligion.org/|Critical Theory of Religion|]]. Participants include George Lundskow, author of [[http://www.amazon.fr/Sociology-Religion-Substantive-Transdisciplinary-Approach/dp/1412937213/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1303548664&sr=1-1-catcorr|The Sociology of Religion-- a substantive and transdisciplinary approach.]]
  * [[http://www.tawhidfirst.com/monotheism/ |"An explanation of the monotheism of the Prophets and Messangers..."]] . Specific references? To revisit.
  * [[http://www.hyperhistory.net/apwh/essays/cot/t0w03monopolytheism.htm| Thesis: Original Monotheism rapidly devolved into Polytheism until Abram left his father's gods and became a Monotheist]]

=== Russia and Eastern Europe ===

  * [[http://www.angelfire.com/pro2/politcentr/pagan-gods.html|Slavic pagan gods]] and Russia before Christianity
  * [[http://sicsa.huji.ac.il/13shnir.html| Russian Neo-pagan Myths and Antisemitism]]
  * [[http://www.akademiai.com/content/t5n76051v7j21558/|Morsels on the Tongue: Evidence of a Pre-Christian Matriarchy in Russian Fairy Tales]] -- 9 pages, €20 / $25 !!