Author: Guy E. Swanson
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1960
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780472060931
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Analyzes the social structure of 50 primitive peoples to show how it determined the form of their religious worship
Author: Adolf Ellegard Jensen
Publisher:
Published: 1963
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For annotation see French edition; Mythes et cultes chez les peuples primitifs (re Wandjina cult of North Kimberleys from information gathered by H. Petri in 1938)
Author: Page duBois
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2014-06-16
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 0674728831
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As A Million and One Gods shows, polytheism is considered a scandalous presence in societies oriented to Jewish, Christian, and Muslim beliefs. Yet it persists, even in the West, perhaps because polytheism corresponds to unconscious needs and deeply held values of tolerance, diversity, and equality that are central to civilized societies.
Author: Winfried Corduan
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Published: 2013-09-15
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 1433683008
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Christians believe that religion began when God created human beings and revealed himself to them. But is there scholarly evidence for this belief? In the nineteenth century academic world a stormy debate took shape over the origin of religion. Scholars explored the ancient languages of mythology and then considered evolutionary anthropology. A dominant view emerged that religion began with animism -- the reverent honoring of spirits -- and from there evolved into higher forms, from polytheism on to monotheism. However, scholars Andrew Lang and Wilhem Schmidt contended there were cultures throughout the world -- pygmy people in Africa and Asia, certain Australian Aboriginal groups and Native American tribes -- that originated as monotheistic, acknowledging the existence of one supreme God who created the world and holds people accountable for living morally upright lives. The debate wore on, and Schmidt, a member of the Catholic order and a priest, was accused (without evidence) of letting his faith interpret the facts. By the mid-twentieth century a silent consensus formed among scholars not to discuss the origin and evolution of religion any further. The discoveries of Lang and Schmidt have since been largely ignored. However, the evidence on which these scholars based their conclusion of monotheism is still out there. In the Beginning God attempts to educate Christians about the debate on this topic, the facts that were accepted and those that were ignored, and the use to which Christians can put all of this material in making a case for the truth of Christianity.
Author: Adolf E. Jensen
Publisher:
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9780226398242
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Daniel Garrison Brinton
Publisher:
Published: 1897
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Daniel G. Brinton
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-08-15
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 3368912003
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reproduction of the original.