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
Immortality, 34 ff.
Incorporation, 178.
Individual, and the community, 218, 239; cannot exist save in society,
225; both a means and an end for society, 240 ff., 246, 247; existence
of, 248; interests of, 250, 251; end of, 253.
Individuality, not destroyed but strengthened by uprooting selfish
desires, 67.
Indo-China, 181, 194.
Indo-European languages, 20.
Infancy, helpless, 98.
Initiation ceremonies, 190, 191; admit to the worship of the gods, 192;
important for theory of sacrifice, 192.
Interests, of the community, 250; and the individual, 250.
Intoning, of prayer, 147.
Israel, 59.
Jaundice, 89.
Jews, 53, 54.
Judgments, of value, 115.
Justice, public, 223, 224 ff.
Kaitish rites, 164, 165.
Kangaroo totem, 197.
Kant, 255.
Karma, 64, 65.
Kei Islands, 156.
Kern Baby, 195.
Khonds of Orissa, and prayer, 139, 167, 171.
Killing of the god, 197.
Kingsley, Miss, 48, 49, 116.
Lake Nyassa, 146.
Lake Superior, 143.
Lang, Andrew, 129, 168, 169, 170.
_L'Année Sociologique_, 60.
Like produces like, 72, 73, 74, 76, 79, 80, 84, 85, 86, 89, 98, 100,
160, 189.
Litanies, 163.
Love of neighbours, 254.
MacCullough, J. A., 47.
McTaggart, Dr., 49, 50.
Magic, 32, 70 ff.; and murder, 45, 47; a colourable imitation of
science, 71; a spurious system, 71, 72; fraudulent, 75, 76; origin of
belief in, 79; regarded with disapproval, 79; sympathetic or
hom[oe]opathic, 80; offensive to the god of the community, 81; not
prior to religion, 97; condemned when inconsistent with the public
good, 97; and anti-social purposes, 98; decline of, 100; and the
impossible, 101; private and public, 83; nefarious, 83; beneficent, 87,
88; does not imply spirits, 89; and religion, 92 ff.; fundamentally
different, 95, 158, 160; mimics science and religion, 103; and the
degradation of religion, 150, 151, 152; and prayer, 153, 154; priority
of, to religion, 154, 157; and sacramental eating, 199-204. _See_
Appendix.
Magician, his personality, 87.
Mahommedanism, 259.
Maize-mother, 190, 193, 194, 195, 196.
Maker, the, 168.
Manganja, 146, 160.
Mara tribe, 164.
Marett, R. R., 151.
Marriage law, 222, 227.
Masai, and prayer, 143, 144, 145, 153-156, 162.
Master of Life, 143.
Mauss, M., 60.
Mâyâ, 64.
Medical advice, 76.
Mexico, 193, 194, 199, 200.
Mimetic magic, 85.
Minahassa, 194.
Mind of Humanity, 213.
Missionary, 6, 140, 210, 211, 257, 265; interested in the value rather
than the chronological order of religions, 12; being practical, uses
applied science, 15; and method of comparison, 17; and notes
resemblances, 22; requires scientific knowledge of the material he has
to work on, 34; may use as a lever the belief in man's communion with
spirits, 69; and magic, 102, 103, 104; and fetichism, 105; and heathen
prayer, 138, 173.
Momentary gods, 128, 136.
Morality, 81, 83, 84, 95, 211 ff., 260, 261; and communion with God,
62; and the mysteries, 191; and prayer, 148.
Moral transgression, and sin, 221.
Mosquito-totem, 166.
Mura-muras, 162.
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