 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
 | Gnana Stanley Jaya Kumar - 1996 - 264 sider
...power which seeks to grow into a living union with it. James G. Frazer writes: Religion is a belief in powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life. In the opinion of Maclver: Religion, as we understand the term, implies a relationship... | |
 | Turner B S Staff - 2004 - 370 sider
...science and magic, religion does not assume the immutability of nature. On the contrary, since it is "a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior...believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life," its central assumption is the variability of natural phenomena as determined by the... | |
 | Eugene Thomas Long - 2003 - 556 sider
...are the laws of nature. In this way magic differs from religion. Religion, according to Frazer, is "a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior...and control the course of nature and human life." 20 It consists of belief in powers higher than human powers and in efforts to please these powers.... | |
 | Eugene Thomas Long - 2003 - 556 sider
...are the laws of nature. In this way magic differs from religion. Religion, according to Frazer, is "a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior...direct and control the course of nature and human life."2" It consists of belief in powers higher than human powers and in efforts to please these powers.... | |
 | David L. Sills, Robert King Merton - 2000 - 466 sider
...the iron mould of hereditary custom. The Golden Bough (1890) 1922:55. 2 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,... | |
 | Gerald Friesen - 2000 - 324 sider
...relativism was just beginning to inform studies of human society, JG Frazer could define religion as 'a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior...believed to direct and control the course of Nature and of human life.' JG Frazer, cited by William P. Alston, 'Religion,' in Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 140.... | |
 | Roberto Cipriani - 296 sider
...religion. He then tended to define it along the line of his notion of magic, by writing that religion was: 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,... | |
 | Ziony Zevit - 2003 - 852 sider
...his own - not finite and limited, but infinite - nature. /. G. Frazer: By religion ... I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior...believed to direct and control the course of Nature and of human life. S. Freud: . . . man's helplessness remains and along with it his longing for his father... | |
 | Andy Reimer - 2002 - 298 sider
...so far as to call magic the 'bastard sister of science'.8 Religion, on the other hand, involves 'the propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to...believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life'.9 However, not all beliefs involving personalized spirits are attributed to the realm... | |
 | Paul Allan Mirecki, Marvin W. Meyer - 2002 - 496 sider
...(New York, 1922/1958) 56. . then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior lo man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life."12 Thus, the supplication. On this basis, then, Frazer has articulated a reasonably... | |
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