idolatry

Yuval Noah Harariの "Sapiens" を読んでいます。 'The Benefits of Idolatry' の章から引用します。

Two thousand years of monotheistic brainwashing have caused most Westerners to see polytheism as ignorant and childish idolatry. This is an unjust stereotype. In order to understand the inner logic of polytheism, it is necessary to grasp the central idea buttressing the belief in many gods.

章のタイトルにも使われている "idolatry" の説明を辞書で見ます。

・Collins Dictionary: Someone who practises idolatry worships idols.: Their affection for her soon increased almost to idolatry.
・Catholic Encyclopedia: Etymologically denotes divine worship given to an image, but its signification has been extended to all divine worship given to anyone or anything but the true God
・Vocabulary.com: Idolatry means the worship of images as if they were gods. Many religions prohibit idolatry, some even to the extent of forbidding any representational objects in houses of worship.
Idol sits at the head of the word idolatry. If you worship — or even just look up to — a person or a thing, you are said to idolize them. For some modern idolaters, money is their idol, while for others it is celebrities, and for still others their jobs.