monotheists

Single deity adherents

Monotheists are people who believe in a single god.

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are the major monotheistic religions, and their adherents are monotheists.

The term distinguishes believers in one god from polytheists, who worship multiple gods, and atheists, who reject belief in any god.

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Judaism

Religion following Mosaic law

Zoroastrianism · Bahá'í · Rastafarianism · Druze · Mandaeism · Samaritanism

adherents

theists

People affirming divine existence

faithful · congregants · practitioners · followers · converts · pilgrims · disciples · zealots · mystics · spiritualists

beliefs

theism

Belief in deity

  • doctrineEstablished body of teachings
  • creedStatement of belief
  • dogmaUnchallengeable official beliefs

orthodoxy · scripture · canon · revelation · covenant · commandments · salvation · afterlife · providence · creation

oneness

singular

One in number

unitary · undivided · exclusivity · unique · absolute · tawhid

practice

prayer

Address to deity

reverence · meditation · fasting · observance · ritual · liturgy · prostration · pilgrimage · sabbath · tithing

deity

God

Supreme spiritual authority

almighty · lord · divine · eternal · infinite · sovereign · omnipresent · merciful · holy · sacred

clergy

priests

Ordained religious leaders

  • rabbisOrdained Jewish spiritual leaders
  • imamsMuslim prayer leaders
  • ministersReligious leaders or officials

monks · nuns · pastors · chaplains · clerics · preachers · theologians · mullahs · cantors · gurus

Categories
Opposites
number of deities worshipped

monotheistspolytheists

Believers in multiple deities

pagans · pantheists · animists · idolaters · dualists

theistic belief

monotheistsatheists

Those without religious faith

nonbelievers · nontheists · agnostics · secularists · materialists

Family

monotheism, monotheistic, monotheist

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