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

One might as well look for the first germs of religion, for primitive religion strictly so called, in Hymns Ancient and Modern as in the Vedas.

From Custom and Myth New Edition by Lang, Andrew

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

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)