 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
 | 1905 - 498 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... | |
 | Leopold Sabourin (S. J.) - 1973 - 302 sider
...sociological expression, "communion." 14 If the cultic element is stressed, then religion can be defined as "a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct i" V. Elwin, Religion of an Indian Tribe 129. 11 W. Schmidt, Der Ursprung der Gottesidee, 12 vols (Munster... | |
 | Joseph Campbell, Marie-Jeanne Abadie - 1981 - 580 sider
...superstition. In The Golden Bough Frazer defines religion in the following terms : By religion, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior...believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life. Thus defined, religion consists of two elements, a theoretical and a practical, namely,... | |
 | Julius Thomas Fraser - 1990 - 552 sider
...science which we call art; the false rules constitute magic. Then he distinguishes religion from magic as "a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior...direct and control the course of nature and human life. Thus defined, religion consists of two elements, a theoretical and a practical. . . ." 7 While Frazer... | |
 | Creighton Peden, Larry E. Axel - 1989 - 272 sider
...there are supernaturalistic definitions, for example, James Frazier's definition that religion is "the propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to...believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life."6 Second, we find those definitions that stress the ethico-social interests of humankind,... | |
 | Stanley J. Tambiah - 1990 - 204 sider
...assumed a humble dependence towards them and propitiated them for favours. Frazer defined religion as the "propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to...believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life."25 But if this change of tack became necessary, why did not intelligent man - who must... | |
 | Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn - 1992 - 252 sider
...we on them—in between. In THE GOLDEN BOUGH. religion is defined as the attempt to gain the favor of "powers superior to man, which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life". If people don't spend billions of dollars on the Church of Modern Medicine in order... | |
 | Benson Saler - 1993 - 314 sider
...intelligible. It also goes back to James G. Frazer (l890 l:222), who states that by religion he understands "a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior...which are believed to direct and control the course of human life." So denned, Frazer points out, religion has both a theoretical aspect (a belief in powers... | |
 | Irving Hexham - 1993 - 252 sider
...DURKHEIM, Emile: "a unified system of BELIEFS and practices relative to SACRED things." FRAZER, James: "a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct or control the course of NATURE and human life." HEGEL, Georg: "the knowledge possessed by the finite... | |
 | Walter H. Capps - 1995 - 396 sider
...in power." This led Frazer to the following definition of religion: 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. 13 Thus defined, religion consists of two elements, a theoretical and a practical element,... | |
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