 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
 | Irving King - 1910 - 408 sider
...the superstitious and ignorant.1 " By religion, then," Frazer says, "I understand a propitiation and conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed...and control the course of nature and human life." 2 Religion is essentially an invention coordinate with the gradual growth in man of the conviction... | |
 | Albion W. Small, Ellsworth Faris, Ernest Watson Burgess, Herbert Blumer - 1910 - 894 sider
...is the attempt to placate and win over powers that may listen — or may not. It is defined as the "propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to...believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life."3 Unfortunately when we test this scheme and the definitions which it involves, the... | |
 | Robert Ranulph Marett - 1910 - 36 sider
...of Religion first, on the ground that it is less open to criticism : he understands by this term ' a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to...believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life'.2 Here Dr. Frazer says in effect that Humility is the differentia of Religion. This... | |
 | Irving King - 1910 - 410 sider
...the superstitious and ignorant.1 " By religion, then," Frazer says, "I understand a propitiation and conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed...direct and control the course of nature and human life."1 Religion is essentially an invention coordinate with the gradual growth in man of the conviction... | |
 | 1911 - 1088 sider
...in Dr J. G Frazer's definition in The Golden Bough (2nd ed.), I. 63. He understands by religion " a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to...believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life," He goes on to explain that by " powers" he means " conscious or personal agents." It... | |
 | 1911 - 1086 sider
...in Dr J. G Frazcr's definition in The Golden Bough (znd ed.), i. 63. He understands by religion " a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to...believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life." He goes on to explain that by " powers" he means " conscious or personal agents." It... | |
 | William Warde Fowler - 1911 - 612 sider
...the universe" 5 Dr. Frazer's definition is not different in essentials : " By religion I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to...believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life ; " 6 only that here the word is used of acts of worship rather than of the feeling or... | |
 | 1911 - 1090 sider
...in Dr J. G Frazer's definition in The Golden Bough (2nd ed.), I. 63. He understands by religion " a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to...believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life." He goes on to explain that by " powers" be means " conscious or personal agents." It... | |
 | Hugh Chisholm - 1911 - 1090 sider
...in Dr J. G Frazcr's definition in The Golden Bough (2nd ed.), i. 63. He understands by religion 41 a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to...believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life." He goes on to explain that by " powers" he means " conscious or personal agents." It... | |
 | James Henry Leuba - 1912 - 414 sider
...Religion, Psychol. Rev., 1898, Vol. V, p. 258.) JG FRAZER. — " By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to...believed to direct and control the course of Nature and of human life." (The Golden Bough, zd. ed., Vol. I, p. 63.) GOBLET D'ALVIELLA. — " These three elements,... | |
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