An Introduction to the History of ReligionMethuen, 1902 - 443 sider |
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... reasons why they have failed to advance , we shall be able better to appreciate the causes to which progress is really due . This , however , assumes that it is possible scientifically to ascertain the law of growth in the case of pagan ...
... reasons why they have failed to advance , we shall be able better to appreciate the causes to which progress is really due . This , however , assumes that it is possible scientifically to ascertain the law of growth in the case of pagan ...
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... reasons : first , the very animals have , for instance , their lairs and their customary drinking - places to which they resort in full con- fidence that they will find them where they were before ; and we cannot rate the intelligence ...
... reasons : first , the very animals have , for instance , their lairs and their customary drinking - places to which they resort in full con- fidence that they will find them where they were before ; and we cannot rate the intelligence ...
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... reason to be so . Again , it will hardly be doubted that , when primitive man found his most reasonable and justifiable expectations ( as they appeared to him ) frustrated in a manner for which he could not account or find any ...
... reason to be so . Again , it will hardly be doubted that , when primitive man found his most reasonable and justifiable expectations ( as they appeared to him ) frustrated in a manner for which he could not account or find any ...
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... reasons for hesitating to accept this view , and for believing , first , that religion and magic had different origins , and were always essentially distinct from one another ; next , that the belief in the supernatural was prior to the ...
... reasons for hesitating to accept this view , and for believing , first , that religion and magic had different origins , and were always essentially distinct from one another ; next , that the belief in the supernatural was prior to the ...
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... reason to believe , this the negative phase of the super- natural dawned upon the mind of man before the positive , then man could not have begun by thinking himself equal to or more powerful than his gods . In fine , the power of the ...
... reason to believe , this the negative phase of the super- natural dawned upon the mind of man before the positive , then man could not have begun by thinking himself equal to or more powerful than his gods . In fine , the power of the ...
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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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