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
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
Beginning in primitive religion as a crude and cheap petition for favors, it becomes in more spiritual religious experience, a lyric cry of emotion, a tranquil and serene expression of the soul's desire.
From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Edman, Irwin
