 | 1914 - Liczba stron: 530
...of magic and religion does justice to his meaning. ' By religion,' says Dr. Frazer, ' I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life. Thus defined, religion consists of two elements,... | |
 | James George Frazer - 1900 - Liczba stron: 510
...to employ the word consistently in that sense throughout his work. By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life. In this sense it will readily be perceived... | |
 | 1901 - Liczba stron: 1104
...spiritual or personal agency " is fundamentally different from the Religion which in Mr Frazer's phrase is "a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life." So Mr Frazer marshals his facts and draws... | |
 | Andrew Lang - 1901 - Liczba stron: 372
...we are to pursue a speculation rather airy and unbottomed on facts. Mr. Frazer defines religion as ' a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.' ' But clearly this definition does not... | |
 | Folklore Society (Great Britain) - 1901 - Liczba stron: 644
...understand this change of view it is necessary to define the terms used. Dr. Frazer understands by religion a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life. It is opposed to magic, and equally in his... | |
 | 1902 - Liczba stron: 848
...the air if the definitions of the debaters differ. "By religion," Mr. Frazer warns us, "I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life." Such propitiation is undoubtedly "religious,"... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1902 - Liczba stron: 684
...the air if the definitions of the debaters differ. ' By religion,' Mr Frazer warns us, ' I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.' Such propitiation is undoubtedly 'religious';... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1902 - Liczba stron: 684
...the air if the definitions of the debaters differ. ' By religion,' Mr Frazer warns us, ' I understand a propitiation or conciliation of . powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.' Such propitiation is undoubtedly 'religious';... | |
 | James Hastings, Ann Wilson Hastings, Edward Hastings - 1902 - Liczba stron: 602
...word consistently in that sense and throughout his work, Mr. Frazer says : ' By religion I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life. In this sense it will be perceived that... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1903 - Liczba stron: 474
...and even opposition of principle between magic and religion.'"2 On this view he defines religion as "a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control i Since this was written there has appeared the essay Sar le tutemimae of M. Durkheim... | |
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I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life. 
