Christian Julien Robin (2012). Arabia and Ethiopia. In The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity. OUP USA. pp.304–305. ISBN 9780195336931. Rees, D. (1976). North Korea, Undermining the Truce. Conflict studies. Institute for the Study of Conflict. ISBN 978-0-903366-43-4 . Retrieved 17 February 2023. Sidney H. Griffith (2012). The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque: Christians and Muslims in the World of Islam. Princeton University Press. pp.143–145. ISBN 978-1-4008-3402-0. Bhakti (called Bhatti in Pali) has been a common practice in Theravada Buddhism, where offerings and group prayers are made to Cetiya and particularly images of Buddha. [126] [127] Karel Werner notes that Bhakti has been a significant practice in Theravada Buddhism, and states, "there can be no doubt that deep devotion or bhakti / bhatti does exist in Buddhism and that it had its beginnings in the earliest days". [128]

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The term false god is often used throughout the Abrahamic scriptures ( Torah, Tanakh, Bible, and Quran) to compare Yahweh [214] (interpreted by Jews, Samaritans, and Christians) or Elohim/ Allah [215] (interpreted by Muslims) as the only true God. [4] Nevertheless, the Hebrew Bible/ Old Testament itself recognizes and reports that originally the Israelites were not monotheists but actively engaged in idolatry and worshipped many foreign, non-Jewish Gods besides Yahweh and/or instead of him, [216] such as Baal, Astarte, Asherah, Chemosh, Dagon, Moloch, Tammuz, and more, and continued to do so until their return from the Babylonian exile [214] (see Ancient Hebrew religion). Judaism, the oldest Abrahamic religion, eventually shifted into a strict, exclusive monotheism, [5] based on the sole veneration of Yahweh, [217] [218] [219] the predecessor to the Abrahamic conception of God. [Note 2] Kathleen M. Ashley; Robert L. A. Clark (2001). Medieval Conduct. University of Minnesota Press. pp.211–212. ISBN 978-0-8166-3576-4.a b B. Morrill; J. Ziegler; S. Rodgers (2006). Practicing Catholic: Ritual, Body, and Contestation in Catholic Faith. Springer. pp.79–80. ISBN 978-1-4039-8296-4. Swagato Ganguly (2017). Idolatry and The Colonial Idea of India: Visions of Horror, Allegories of Enlightenment. Routledge. ISBN 978-1138106161 a b Such idol caring practices are found in other religions. For example, the Infant Jesus of Prague is venerated in many countries of the Catholic world. In the Prague Church it is housed, it is ritually cared for, cleaned and dressed by the sisters of the Carmelites Church, changing the Infant Jesus' clothing to one of the approximately hundred costumes donated by the faithfuls as gift of devotion. [166] [167] The idol is worshipped with the faithful believing that it renders favors to those who pray to it. [167] [168] [169] Such ritualistic caring of the image of baby Jesus is found in other churches and homes in Central Europe and Portugual / Spain influenced Christian communities with different names, such as Menino Deus. [168] [170] [171]

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Reuven Chaim Klein (2018). God versus Gods: Judaism in the Age of Idolatry. Mosaica Press. ISBN 978-1946351463.Leora Faye Batnitzky (2000). Idolatry and Representation: The Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig Reconsidered. Princeton University Press. p.145. ISBN 978-0-691-04850-5. Veneration of icons through proskynesis was codified in 787 AD by the Seventh Ecumenical Council. [88] [89] This was triggered by the Byzantine Iconoclasm controversy that followed raging Christian-Muslim wars and a period of iconoclasm in West Asia. [88] [90] The defense of images and the role of the Syrian scholar John of Damascus was pivotal during this period. The Eastern Orthodox Church has ever since celebrated the use of icons and images. Eastern Rite Catholics also accepts icons in their Divine Liturgy. [91] Protestantism [ edit ] Shalom Goldman (2012). Wiles of Women/The Wiles of Men, The: Joseph and Potiphar's Wife in Ancient Near Eastern, Jewish, and Islamic Folklore. State University of New York Press. pp.64–68. ISBN 978-1-4384-0431-8. Manuel Aguilar-Moreno (2007). Handbook to Life in the Aztec World. Oxford University Press. pp.24, 203–204. ISBN 978-0-19-533083-0.

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Wendy Doniger (1999). Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of World Religions. Merriam-Webster. p. 497. ISBN 978-0-87779-044-0. a b c Noel Salmond (2006). Hindu Iconoclasts: Rammohun Roy, Dayananda Sarasvati, and Nineteenth-Century Polemics against Idolatry. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. pp.15–17. ISBN 978-1-55458-128-3. Elmar Waibl (1997). Dictionary of philosophical terms. Walter de Gruyter. pp.42 see Bilderverehrung. ISBN 978-3-11-097454-6. The commandments in the Hebrew Bible against idolatry forbade the practices and gods of ancient Akkad, Mesopotamia, and Egypt. [53] [54] The Hebrew Bible states that God has no shape or form, is utterly incomparable, is everywhere and cannot be represented in a physical form of an idol. [55] Christopher Norris (1997). New Idols of the Cave: On the Limits of Anti-realism. Manchester University Press. pp.106–110. ISBN 978-0-7190-5093-0.Robert W. Williamson (2013). Religion and Social Organization in Central Polynesia. Cambridge University Press. pp.5–6. ISBN 978-1-107-62569-3.