An Introduction to the Study of Comparative ReligionJevons, F. B. (Frank Byron)
Religion
An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion
Jevons, F. B. (Frank Byron)
Religion
Ancestor worship, 52, 53; may be arrested by religion, 53, 54, 55.
Andaman Islands, 169.
Animal sacrifice, 209; animal meal, 178.
Animals, worshipped, 111.
Animism, 204, 215, 216, 217; and magic, 89, 90, 98; and fetichism, 116,
117, 118; polytheism, 131; not religion, 136.
Anticipation, of nature, 73.
Antinomy, the, of religious feeling, 174.
Anzam, 170.
Applied science of religion, 2 ff.; looks to the future, 3; is used by
the missionary as a practical man, 15, 16; its object, 18, 21.
Ashantee Land, 153, 155.
Atheist, 4, 6.
Atman, 247.
At-one-ment, 178.
Attention, 9, 10.
Australia, 183 ff.
Australian tribes, religion of, 27, 28.
Aztecs, 188, 190.
Basutos, 181.
Becoming, 214.
Being, is in process of evolution, 214; still incomplete, 214.
Belief, and desire, 39, 40; in immortality and God, 31, 32; erroneous,
and magic, 79; in magic, 85; religious, 137.
Bhogaldai, 194.
Billiards, 78.
Blood, and rain, 161.
Bones, of animals, hung up, 78.
Boorah, 162 ff.
Bosman, 109 ff., 112, 113.
Bread, prayer for daily, 181.
Buddhism, 247 ff.; and immortality, 36, 37, 61, 62, 63; its fundamental
illogicality, 66; its strength, 66.
Buro, 194.
Buzzard, 76.
Byamee, 162 ff., 191, 198.
Cause, and conditions, 77, 85.
Celebes, 194.
Ceram, 181.
Ceremonies, for rain, 161.
Chain of existence, 65.
Charms, and prayers, 150, 115, 152.
Chattels, 241, 243.
Cherokee Indian, 50, 76, 77.
Chicomecoatl, 193.
Childhood, 98.
China, 194, 197.
Christianity, 239 ff., 258, 259, 260; the highest form of religion, 15,
18, 22, 23; and other forms of religion, 26, 27, 28, 35; alone teaches
self-sacrifice as the way to life eternal, 69; and sacrifice, 209.
Clouds, 153; of smoke and rain, 161, 162.
Communal purposes, and magic, 91.
Communion, 175; not so much an intellectual belief as an object of
desire, 43, 44; of man with God the basis of morality, 62; logically
incompatible with Buddhism, 63; involves personal existence, 67; with
God, 137; sought in prayer, 172; and sacrifice, 172; in Mexico, 193;
maintained by sacramental eating, 195; annually, 196; renewed, 198; the
true end of sacrifice, 207, 208; between man and God, 249; imperfect,
257.
Community, 254; and magic, 81, 97; and its God, 91.
Community, the, and fetiches, 122; and its gods, 135; and prayer, 146,
147, 148, 166; and the individual, 218, 239.
Comparative method, 20, 21.
Comparative Philology, 20.
Comparison, method of, 17; implies similarity in the religions
compared, 19; and implies difference also, 20; contrasted with
comparative method, 21; deals with differences, 22.
Comte, 213.
Conciliation, and coercion, of spirits, 121.
Congregations, 170.
Contagious magic, 85.
Continuation theory, 55, 56.
Corn, eaten sacramentally, 194, 195.
Corn-maiden, 195.
Corn-mother, 195.
Corn-spirit, 196, 199, 200.
Cotton-mother, 194.
Creator, 170.
Creek Indians, 194.
Custom, 244; protected by the god of the community, 219.
Dances, 162; and prayer, 153.
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