The worship of one primary deity while acknowledging the existence of other gods. Henotheistic traditions focus devotion on a single god without denying that other deities exist for other peoples or purposes.
Coined by German scholar Max Müller in 1860 from Greek 'henos' (one) + 'theos' (god) + '-ism' (doctrine). Müller used it to describe what he saw as an evolutionary stage between polytheism and monotheism.
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