An Introduction to the History of ReligionMethuen, 1902 - 443 sider |
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... ritual adopted was copied from that observed by the community in approaching its gods ( ch . xiv . " Family Gods and Guardian Spirits " ) . Like all other private cults , the worship of ancestors was modelled on the public worship of ...
... ritual adopted was copied from that observed by the community in approaching its gods ( ch . xiv . " Family Gods and Guardian Spirits " ) . Like all other private cults , the worship of ancestors was modelled on the public worship of ...
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... in magic is fostered by the juxtaposition of two races , the 1 Myth , Ritual , and Religion , i . 91 . 2 Primitive Culture , ch . iv . one more and the other less civilised . The one 36 INTRODUCTION TO HISTORY OF RELIGION.
... in magic is fostered by the juxtaposition of two races , the 1 Myth , Ritual , and Religion , i . 91 . 2 Primitive Culture , ch . iv . one more and the other less civilised . The one 36 INTRODUCTION TO HISTORY OF RELIGION.
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... ritual ; the superstitious mind , incapable of understanding prayer , will recite the Lord's Prayer backwards as a spell more powerful than any of its own ; and the Irish peasant uses holy water where simple water would have been ...
... ritual ; the superstitious mind , incapable of understanding prayer , will recite the Lord's Prayer backwards as a spell more powerful than any of its own ; and the Irish peasant uses holy water where simple water would have been ...
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... ritual for approaching both classes of spirits came to be the same , the similarity would eventually react to the advantage and increased honour of the spirits of the dead . The acts which constituted worship in the case of the ...
... ritual for approaching both classes of spirits came to be the same , the similarity would eventually react to the advantage and increased honour of the spirits of the dead . The acts which constituted worship in the case of the ...
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... ritual belong to the god , and therefore are taboo ; and even the corpse - taboo may be brought into a sort of harmony with this theory , if we assume that the spirit which has left the corpse becomes a god , and if we also further ...
... ritual belong to the god , and therefore are taboo ; and even the corpse - taboo may be brought into a sort of harmony with this theory , if we assume that the spirit which has left the corpse becomes a god , and if we also further ...
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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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