The Birth of the Gods: The Origin of Primitive BeliefsUniversity of Michigan Press, 1960 - 260 sider Analyzes the social structure of 50 primitive peoples to show how it determined the form of their religious worship |
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THE SUPERNATURAL ITS NATURE AND ORIGINS | 1 |
METHODS OF STUDY | 32 |
MONOTHEISM | 55 |
POLYTHEISM | 82 |
EXPERIENCES WITH ANCESTRAL SPIRITS | 97 |
REINCARNATION | 109 |
THE IMMANENCE OF THE SOUL | 121 |
THE PREVALENCE OF WITCHCRAFT | 137 |
CONCLUSION | 175 |
DETAILED CLASSIFICATIONS AND SUPPLEMENTARY TABLES | 194 |
NOTES ON THE PRIMORDIAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURES | 220 |
RELIABILITY OF THE CODING | 222 |
NOTES | 227 |
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THE SUPERNATURAL AND MORALITY | 153 |
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Absent active ancestral spirits appear associated behavior beliefs black magic Bride Price Chapter Code communal specialties conceptions constitutional structures culture dead debt relations deities differences Durkheim's employed ethnographer evidence exist expect experiences explanation further high gods human affairs ideas Ifugao immanence of soul important indicators kin groups kinship organization legitimate living Lozi magic and religion mana matri-family means monotheism monotheistic nature Navaho Nez Percés noncommunal specialties notion nuclear family Nuer number of noncommunal number of sovereign number of superior Nyakyusa origin particular persons phratries polytheism population prediction present prevalence of witchcraft Primogeniture primordial produce punish purposes reincarnation relationship religion religious reports roles sample significant social conditions social organization society's sovereign kinship groups sovereign unit studies super superior gods supernatural sanctions Table tion Trumai ultimately sovereign group ultimately sovereign organization units of settlement University unlegitimated contacts village wealth witch witchcraft Yagua Yahgan Yokuts Yurok