I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life. The Origin of Priesthood - Side 8af Gunnar Landtman - 1905 - 217 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
| India. Census Commissioner - 1902 - 492 sider
...some kind, and by religion we may understand " a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior toman which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life." .. , In this sense it will readily be perceived The jolden Bough, I, page 63. . , ,.... | |
| John Mackinnon Robertson - 1903 - 474 sider
...and even opposition of principle between magic and religion.'"2 On this view he defines religion as "a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control i Since this was written there has appeared the essay Sar le tutemimae of M. Durkheim (L'Annee Nociolo,tique,... | |
| George Trumbull Ladd - 1905 - 692 sider
...to favor the argument than to correspond to the facts of history. Religion, with this author, is " a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior...and control the course of nature and human life." 2 It is to be expected, then, that when the means provided by magic fail to propitiate or control these... | |
| Irving King - 1905 - 84 sider
...different grades of experience. Hence as regards Frazier's definition of religion as " the propitiation and conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed...and control the course of nature and human life," we can only say that it depends for its truth entirely upon the stage of culture and upon the form... | |
| Alfred Ernest Crawley - 1905 - 360 sider
...be added to this derivation. Frazer understands by religion "a propitiation or Frazer'i definition. conciliation of powers superior to man, which are...believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life. In this sense it will readily be perceived that religion is opposed in principle both... | |
| 1924 - 1194 sider
...gerade diese Bezeichnung vorgeschlagen hat. Es ist sehr bemerkenswert, bei aller Vorsicht, " FRAZER, .A propitiation or conciliation of powers superior...and control the course of nature and human life.' The Golden Bough, I (191 1), p. 53; bei EHRLICH, S. 20. 41 PREUSS, S. 36 ff. 44 EHRLICH. S. 63 f.;... | |
| Sociological Society - 1906 - 334 sider
...very different conclusions to which I have myself been led. " By religion," he says, " I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior...believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life. And,1' he continues, " in this sense it will readily be perceived that religion is opposed... | |
| Alfred William Benn - 1906 - 560 sider
...the second edition, published ten years later (1900), it is openly hostile. Eeligion is defined as 'a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior...believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life,' and is therefore ' opposed in principle to science.' For what ' assumes the world to... | |
| Margaret Benson - 1908 - 348 sider
...argument that religion is superseded by science may be true if religion means no more than this—" a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior...believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life " and if " a conscious or personal agent," whose "conduct is in some measure uncertain,... | |
| William Isaac Thomas - 1909 - 956 sider
...to employ the word consistently in that sense throughout his work. By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior...believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life. In this sense it will readily be perceived that religion is opposed in principle both... | |
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