 The religion of the Melanesians consists, as far as belief goes, in the persuasion that there is a supernatural power about, belonging to the region of the unseen ; and, as far as practice goes, in the use of means of getting this power turned to their...  Archives internationales d'ethnographie - Side 2331894Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1878 - 424 sider
...missionary and a thoughtful theologian, says in a letter, dated July 7, 1877, from Norfolk Island: 'The religion of the Melanesians consists, as far...Being occupying a very elevated place in their world' (p. 14). And again : ' There is a belief in a force altogether distinct from physical power, which... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1878 - 422 sider
...missionary and a thoughtful theologian, says in a letter, dated July 7, 1877, from Norfolk Island: 'The religion of the Melanesians consists, as far...Being occupying a very elevated place in their world' (p. 14). And again : ' There is a belief in a force altogether distinct from physical power, which... | |
 | 1879 - 428 sider
...missionary and a thoughtful theologian, says in a letter, dated July 7, 1877, from Norfolk Island : " The religion of the Melanesians consists, as far as...Being occupying a very elevated place in their world " (p. 14). And again : " There is a belief in a force altogether distinct from physical power, which... | |
 | 1879 - 980 sider
...own experience and not from his inner consciongnesa. " The religion of the Melanesiaus consists .... in the persuasion that there is a supernatural power about, belonging to the region of the unseen .... There is a belief in a force altogether distinct from physical power, which acts in all kinds... | |
 | Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain) - 1894 - 576 sider
...knows more about it philosophically than anyone living, thus speaks of it (" The Melanesians," p. 118) :The religion of the Melanesians consists, as far...; and as far as practice goes, in the use of means for getting this power turned to their own benefit. The notion of a Supreme Being is altogether foreign... | |
 | Royal Commonwealth Society - 1894 - 620 sider
...knows more about it philosophically than anyone living, thus speaks of it (" The Melanesians," p. 118) :The religion of the Melanesians consists, as far...; and as far as practice goes, in the use of means for getting this power turned to their own benefit. The notion of a Supreme Being is altogether foreign... | |
 | Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain), Royal Empire Society (Great Britain) - 1894 - 574 sider
...knows more about it philosophically than anyone living, thus speaks of it (" The Melanesians," p. 118) :The religion of the Melanesians consists, as far...; and as far as practice goes, in the use of means for getting this power turned to their own benefit. The notion of a Supremo lieing is altogether foreign... | |
 | John Henry Macartney Abbott - 1908 - 132 sider
...of it. In a letter which Professor Max Muller quoted in the Hibbert Lectures of 1878, he writes : " The religion of the Melanesians consists, as far as...there is a supernatural power about belonging to the regions of the unseen ; and, as far as practice goes, in the use of means of getting this power turned... | |
 | Nancy Frankenberry - 2002 - 252 sider
...evolutionary theories of religion. Codrington had written, in a not altogether coherent report, that: The religion of the Melanesians consists, as far as...of a Supreme Being is altogether foreign to them... There is a belief in a force altogether distinct from physical power, which acts in all kinds of ways... | |
 | Jonathan Z. Smith - 2004 - 429 sider
...evolutionary theories of religion. Codrington had written, in a not altogether coherent report, that The religion of the Melanesians consists, as far as...of a Supreme Being is altogether foreign to them. . . . There is a belief in a force altogether distinct from physical power, which acts in all kinds... | |
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