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Religion is basically a philosophical following. It is a dogmatized and/or ritualized form of a particular transcendentalist philosophical position. The many different religious concepts are conceived fundamentally through philosophical reasoning and they correspond specifically to various philosophical doctrines/theories (eg. Christian Trinitarianism = analogical ontology, soul = dualism, free will = metaphysical libertarianism, fate = determinism, etc.). Theology, the metaphysical foundation of theistic religions, itself is a branch of philosophy. The different types of belief system address the different philosophical interpretations / views on the nature of Reality and its relation to the universe.
Pantheism = God / Reality is the universe itself or vice versa; there is nothing more or greater than it
Panentheism = God / Reality includes the universe but also transcends it / is greater than it
Deism = God is a separate entity from the universe and does not interact with it
Monotheism = God is a separate entity from the unverse and interacts with it
Polytheism = Various gods are part of the universe and each phenomenon that occurs in the world is DIRECTLY caused by a particular god.
Mythology, on the other hand, is a body of stories, legends, tales, etc. It is a subject matter of literature, not of philosophy. Religion incorporates mythology but it is more than just that.
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