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

In this lecture, as my subject is primitive religion, I have made no attempt to trace the history of prayer farther than the highest point which it reaches in the lower levels of religion.

From An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion by Jevons, F. B. (Frank Byron)

The paganism of antiquity is based on a primitive religion, i.e. it is originally in the main homogeneous with the religions nowadays met with in the so-called primitive peoples.

From Atheism in Pagan Antiquity by Andersen, Ingeborg

To study these phenomena in detail is not necessary to the scheme of this book, but belongs rather to the province of primitive religion and law.

From The Grateful Dead The History of a Folk Story by Gerould, Gordon Hall