An Introduction to the History of ReligionMethuen, 1902 - 443 sider |
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... dangerous as the corpse he has touched ) , and next , that its transmissibility implies no hostility - the mourner is as dangerous to those he loves as to those he hates ( ch . vi . " Taboo : its Transmissibility " ) . Taboo is not fear ...
... dangerous as the corpse he has touched ) , and next , that its transmissibility implies no hostility - the mourner is as dangerous to those he loves as to those he hates ( ch . vi . " Taboo : its Transmissibility " ) . Taboo is not fear ...
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... dangerous mechanism long and carefully before setting his hand to it : his needs are pressing and his action must be immediate . It was therefore often at the actual cost and always at the danger of his life that primitive man purchased ...
... dangerous mechanism long and carefully before setting his hand to it : his needs are pressing and his action must be immediate . It was therefore often at the actual cost and always at the danger of his life that primitive man purchased ...
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Frank Byron Jevons. modes of thought , no religion is free from the danger of relapse on the part of some of its believers and the recrud- escence of a belief in magic . Hence it is that we find religion and magic sometimes acting and ...
Frank Byron Jevons. modes of thought , no religion is free from the danger of relapse on the part of some of its believers and the recrud- escence of a belief in magic . Hence it is that we find religion and magic sometimes acting and ...
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... dangers inspire , or the respect and admiration which the strength of the greater carnivora may have exacted from primitive man ; and it seems psycho- logically inadmissible , on the one hand , to derive it from any of these feelings ...
... dangers inspire , or the respect and admiration which the strength of the greater carnivora may have exacted from primitive man ; and it seems psycho- logically inadmissible , on the one hand , to derive it from any of these feelings ...
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... dangerous to wake a sleeper suddenly and before his spirit has had time to return to his body . Death is caused by , or consists in , the permanent absence from the body of the spirit . Illness is the threatened departure of the spirit ...
... dangerous to wake a sleeper suddenly and before his spirit has had time to return to his body . Death is caused by , or consists in , the permanent absence from the body of the spirit . Illness is the threatened departure of the spirit ...
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A. C. Benson altar amongst ancestor ancestor-worship ancient Athenian Bastian become belief blood ceremony chapter civilised clan clansmen Cloth communion consciousness Crown 8vo cult custom dead death deceased deity Demeter Demy 8vo Dionysus divine E. V. LUCAS Egypt Eleusinian Eleusis Ellis evolution existence explanation fact Fcap feast fetish flesh Frazer goddess gods Greece Greek H. C. BEECHING human Iacchus Ibid idea idol Illustrated Indians individual inference king leather Little Library magic maize man's meal Mensch METHUEN'S monotheism moral mysteries myth natural offered original Persephone person plant Polynesia polytheism Pott 8vo priest primitive reason religion religious rites ritual Robertson Smith sacramental sacred sacrifice savage Second Edition Semites soul species spirit stage stone supernatural supernatural powers Supra survival sympathetic magic taboo theory thiasus things taboo Third Edition tion totem animal tree tribe Tshi-speaking unclean victim worship Zagreus Zeus καὶ
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