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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Page 270
... fear alone can kill . While compe- tent investigators had not doubted the actuality of " voodoo " death , it remained for Cannon to establish the physiological mechanisms by which fear , such as can be engendered by sorcery , can kill a ...
... fear alone can kill . While compe- tent investigators had not doubted the actuality of " voodoo " death , it remained for Cannon to establish the physiological mechanisms by which fear , such as can be engendered by sorcery , can kill a ...
Page 274
... fear can end the life of a man . Fear , as is well known , is one of the most deeply rooted and dominant of the emotions . Often , only with difficulty can it be eradi- cated . Associated with it are profound physiological disturbances ...
... fear can end the life of a man . Fear , as is well known , is one of the most deeply rooted and dominant of the emotions . Often , only with difficulty can it be eradi- cated . Associated with it are profound physiological disturbances ...
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... fear of the ghosts of relatives or fear of the power of living relatives is admitted and avowed , there is a definite correlation between this fear and tangible factors which led these people to oppose and dislike each other . We also ...
... fear of the ghosts of relatives or fear of the power of living relatives is admitted and avowed , there is a definite correlation between this fear and tangible factors which led these people to oppose and dislike each other . We also ...
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