Urreligion is a postulated "original" or "oldest" form of religious tradition (the German prefix ur- expressing the idea of "original", "primal", "primitive", "elder", "primeval", or "proto-").
Friedrich Creuzer put forward the notion of a monotheistic primeval religion in 1810 – an idea taken up by other authors of the Romantic period, such as J. J. Bachofen,[1] but decidedly opposed by Johann Heinrich Voss.
In the context of a given religious faith, literal belief in a creation may be the base of primality.
In particular, Urmonotheismus comprises the historical claim that primeval religion was monotheistic.
[8] Some more recent new religious movements that claim to restore primeval religion include Godianism[9] and Umbanda.