An Introduction to the History of ReligionMethuen, 1902 - 443 sider |
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... object is not to place a history of religion before the student , but to prepare him for the study of that history , to familiarise him with some of the elementary ideas and some of the commonest topics of the subject . Much which would ...
... object is not to place a history of religion before the student , but to prepare him for the study of that history , to familiarise him with some of the elementary ideas and some of the commonest topics of the subject . Much which would ...
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... object . Again , the Comparative Method is used in anthropology in the same way as it is employed in deciphering fragmentary ancient inscriptions : in inscriptions of a similar kind similar formulæ recur , thus in decrees of the ...
... object . Again , the Comparative Method is used in anthropology in the same way as it is employed in deciphering fragmentary ancient inscriptions : in inscriptions of a similar kind similar formulæ recur , thus in decrees of the ...
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... objects which surround him , and which are supposed by him to be personal agents , he ascribes super- natural power ( ch . iii . " The Supernatural " ) . Some writers have imagined that there was a time in the " prehistory " of man ...
... objects which surround him , and which are supposed by him to be personal agents , he ascribes super- natural power ( ch . iii . " The Supernatural " ) . Some writers have imagined that there was a time in the " prehistory " of man ...
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... objects a personality like his own ; he also noticed that , as men were organised in kins ( clans and families ) , so natural objects grouped them- selves in natural kinds ( genera and species ) . And as alliances between human kins ...
... objects a personality like his own ; he also noticed that , as men were organised in kins ( clans and families ) , so natural objects grouped them- selves in natural kinds ( genera and species ) . And as alliances between human kins ...
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... object of this chapter is to argue that from the beginning man believed in a supernatural spirit ( or spirits ) having affinity with his own spirit and having power over him . It is of course only with the existence of this belief that ...
... object of this chapter is to argue that from the beginning man believed in a supernatural spirit ( or spirits ) having affinity with his own spirit and having power over him . It is of course only with the existence of this belief that ...
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