primitive religion
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"Animal spirits" sounds like the latest show on the Discovery Channel or the basis of a primitive religion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2012
At Michigan, for example, primitive religion is taught in anthropology classes, the background of the Bible in the Near Eastern studies program.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pantheism appears in primitive religion as an animistic or polytheistic sense of the presence of a divine principle diffused throughout nature.
From The Approach to Philosophy by Perry, Ralph Barton
I think it was the writings of my friend Mr. Andrew Lang that first awoke me, in my undergraduate days, to the importance of anthropology and primitive religion to a Greek scholar.
From Five Stages of Greek Religion by Murray, Gilbert
The Sumerian element continued to survive in the Babylonian people, and the magic which was its primitive religion survived also.
From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
