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
They have made their work literature rather than science, and told us of the Irish peasantry rather than of the primitive religion of mankind, or whatever else the folk-lorists are on the gad after.
From Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
Then, in the fetichism which is or represents the primitive religion of mankind we meet, according to Professor H�ffding, "religion under the guise of desire."
From An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion by Jevons, F. B. (Frank Byron)
The primitive religion is therefore only implicit religion.
From The Approach to Philosophy by Perry, Ralph Barton
