Sentence examples for primitive religions from inspiring English sources

The "primitive" religions of less-developed peoples are not classified.

Therefore, primitive religions primarily concern themselves with the ancestral cult.

In primitive religions the tribe represents the pivot around which all worldly relations turn.

Other forms of toys also probably derive from magical artifacts and fetishes that played a prominent part in primitive religions.

In primitive religions a stone or heap of stones or a mound of earth probably sufficed for this purpose.

Like many of the surviving great modern faiths, primitive religions used the ritual bath for negative and positive purposes.

It's a kind of primitive religion that I don't want to return to.

The use of the terms primitive religion and primitive cultures comes from this approach in seeking an answer to the meaning of ritual, myth, and religion.

In 1902 he began his career as professor of primitive religion at the École Pratique des Hautes Études ("Practical School of Higher Studies"), Paris.

Primitive religion emerged as one of his chief concerns, and his Messiahs: Christian and Pagan (1918) is a pioneer work in the anthropological study of messianism.

Ideas of this kind are found in "primitive" religion (Dogon, Polynesian), in Chinese thought, and in the Pre-Socratic philosophers Thales and Anaximander.