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

With this local nature-worship the world was, in early times, thickly overspread; and manifold survivals of it are still to be found even in lands where the primitive religion has been longest superseded.

From History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems by Menzies, Allan

Will any one pretend that Polytheism is the primitive religion?

From The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 11, November, 1880 by Walker, Aaron

The first, of which Confucius is in some sort the founder, is called the “Doctrine of the Lettered;” the second is regarded by its professors as the primitive religion of the ancient inhabitants of China.

From The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies by White, Catherine Ann