Actually, lots of Hindus are monotheists, both the higher-class intellectual types, Vedanta and such, and the lowbrow devotees of Krishna or whoever. And while Shinto is certainly not monotheism, most Shinto practitioners I've known have been extremely dedicated syncretists who have no difficulty being animists and atheistic Buddhists and theistic Buddhists and so on all at once. When I lived in Japan as a kid, most of the neighbor kids' parents were Fuji Bank employees who voted Communist and sent their kids to (Christian) Sunday School. Of course the whole neighborhood (including us Baptists) took part in all the Shinto and Buddhist holidays and festivals. And felt no incongruity let alone blasphemy in doing so.

Liland
who has never got over the experience