The worship or extreme reverence of humans, human nature, or human beings, treating them as if they were gods.
From 'anthropo-' (human) + 'latry' (worship, from Greek latreia). Emerged as critical terminology in 19th-20th century philosophy to describe excessive humanism.
Celebrity culture might be called a mild form of anthropolatry—we treat famous people as if they have special wisdom or deserve special reverence, even though they're just humans like us!
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