Aspect (religion) Brahman. In Sikhism, there are three distinct aspects: God as deity; God in relation to creation; and God in relation to man. Aspect (religion) Aspect is a term used across several religions and in theology to describe a particular manifestation or conception of a deity or other divine being. Depending on the religion, these might be disjoint or overlapping parts, or methods of perceiving or conceptualizing the deity in a particular context. In the Bahá'í Faith, this might be conceived as a Manifestation of God. In Christianity, the concept of the Trinity views God as 3 distinct parts, whereas Sabellianism
Religion in China competing factions of the Confucians and the "fāngshì" (方士 "masters of directions"), regarded as representatives of the ancient religious tradition inherited from previous dynasties, concurred in the formulation of Han state religion, the former pushing for a centralisation of religio-political power around the worship of the God of Heaven by the emperor, while the latter emphasising the multiplicity of the local gods and the theology of the Yellow Emperor. Besides these developments of common Chinese and Confucian state religion, the latter Han dynasty was characterised by new religious phenomena: the emergence of Taoism outside state orthodoxy, the rise of indigenous