Reader in Comparative Religion: An Anthropological ApproachCultural comparative material; Subjects covered; 1) origin and development of religions; 2) function of religions; 3) symbolism; 4) symbolic classification; 5) myth; 6) ritual; 7) shamanism; 8) magic, withcraft and divination; 9) death, ghosts and ancestor workship; 10) dynamics in religion; Includes W.E.H. Stanners The dreaming and A.L. Kroebers Totem and taboo; an ethnological psychoanalysis and Totem and taboo in retropect which are seperately listed in bibliography. |
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... SOMATOMANCY : PRECURSOR OF THE SCIENCE OF HUMAN CONSTITUTION * William A. Lessa Humanistic writings abound in source materials for the social scientist , who unfortunately has shown a marked tendency to neglect them . An effort is made ...
... SOMATOMANCY : PRECURSOR OF THE SCIENCE OF HUMAN CONSTITUTION * William A. Lessa Humanistic writings abound in source materials for the social scientist , who unfortunately has shown a marked tendency to neglect them . An effort is made ...
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... somatomancy has gone virtually un- recognized as a special and important ef- fort on the part of man to pry loose the secrets of nature pertaining to his destiny and inner being . It deserves study along with its sister forms of ...
... somatomancy has gone virtually un- recognized as a special and important ef- fort on the part of man to pry loose the secrets of nature pertaining to his destiny and inner being . It deserves study along with its sister forms of ...
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... somatomancy and constitution is that both are almost authoritarian in their emphasis on biological factors . In medieval and Renaissance times an attempt was made to arbitrate the problem of human immutability versus human plasticity by ...
... somatomancy and constitution is that both are almost authoritarian in their emphasis on biological factors . In medieval and Renaissance times an attempt was made to arbitrate the problem of human immutability versus human plasticity by ...
Contents
FOREWORD | 1 |
THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF RELIGION | 9 |
THE FUNCTION OF RELIGION IN HUMAN SOCIETY | 85 |
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American animal appear associated become belief body called cause ceremonies clan common concept concerned cult culture Dance dead death divination effect example existence experience expression fact father fear feel force function ghost give given gods hand human idea important Indians individual interest killed kind known less living magic means medicine ment movements myths nature Navaho never objects observed offered oracle organization origin performed person position possessed possible practices present priests primitive question reason regarded relation relatives religion religious result rites ritual sacred seems sense shaman similar situation social society soul spirit supernatural symbolic taboo theory things thought tion totemic tribes University usually village whole witch witchcraft woman women