I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life. The Origin of Priesthood - Side 8af Gunnar Landtman - 1905 - 217 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
| 1914 - 530 sider
...of magic and religion does justice to his meaning. ' By religion,' says Dr. Frazer, ' I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior...believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life. Thus defined, religion consists of two elements, a theoretical and a practical, namely,... | |
| James George Frazer - 1900 - 510 sider
...to employ the word consistently in that sense throughout his work. By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior...believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life. In this sense it will readily be perceived that religion is opposed in principle both... | |
| 1901 - 1104 sider
...spiritual or personal agency " is fundamentally different from the Religion which in Mr Frazer's phrase is "a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior...believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life." So Mr Frazer marshals his facts and draws his conclusions, until at the last he is... | |
| Andrew Lang - 1901 - 372 sider
...we are to pursue a speculation rather airy and unbottomed on facts. Mr. Frazer defines religion as ' a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior...believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.' ' But clearly this definition does not include all that we usually mean by religion.... | |
| Andrew Lang - 1901 - 334 sider
...the sky, and dwelling therein. If this is not religion, by Mr. Frazer's own\, , definition, namely 'a propitiation or conciliation of powers' superior...believed to direct and control the course of nature,' what is religion ? 2 Yet in Australia ' nobody dreams of propitiating gods or spirits by prayer and... | |
| Folklore Society (Great Britain) - 1901 - 640 sider
...itself. Mr. Frazer defines it (G. £., I. 63), as "a propitiation or conciliation (the italics are ours) of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature." This definition identifies Religion with Worship. Mr. Lang (pp. 48, 69) contends that there may be... | |
| 1902 - 848 sider
...the air if the definitions of the debaters differ. "By religion," Mr. Frazer warns us, "I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior...believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life." Such propitiation is undoubtedly "religious," but does Mr. Frazer think his definition... | |
| James Hastings, Ann Wilson Hastings, Edward Hastings - 1902 - 602 sider
...word consistently in that sense and throughout his work, Mr. Frazer says : ' By religion I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior...believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life. In this sense it will be perceived that religion is opposed in principle both to magic... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1902 - 684 sider
...the air if the definitions of the debaters differ. ' By religion,' Mr Frazer warns us, ' I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior...believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.' Such propitiation is undoubtedly 'religious'; but does Mr Frazer think his definition... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1902 - 684 sider
...the air if the definitions of the debaters differ. ' By religion,' Mr Frazer warns us, ' I understand a propitiation or conciliation of . powers superior...believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.' Such propitiation is undoubtedly 'religious'; but does Mr Frazer think his definition... | |
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