God a multitude of titular names for God. In Hinduism, Brahman is often considered a monistic concept of God. In Chinese religion, Shangdi is conceived as the progenitor (first ancestor) of the universe, intrinsic to it and constantly bringing order to it. Other religions have names for the concept, for instance, Baha in the Bahá'í Faith, Waheguru in Sikhism, and Ahura Mazda in Zoroastrianism. The many different conceptions of God, and competing claims as to God's characteristics, aims, and actions, have led to the development of ideas of omnitheism, pandeism, or a perennial philosophy, which postulates that there is one underlying
Patchwork religion Patchwork religion Рatchwork religion — term in the sociology of religion for indicating situations, when individual or religious movement forms its own world view from different elements, which were taken from different existing religions or own religious experience. Collected from these elements religious world view reminds of a patchwork quilt with a unique pattern. Term has common features with social concepts like syncretism, bricolage, sheilaism. Use of term patchwork concerning religion was for the first time suggested by an American sociologist Robert Wuthnow. Wutthow studies aspects of American religiosity, believing that its patchwork and avoidance of keeping to strictly defined