The Making of Religion

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Andrew Lang. The Making of Religion

The Making of Religion

Table of Contents

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION

I. INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER II. SCIENCE AND 'MIRACLES' III. ANTHROPOLOGY AND RELIGION IV. 'OPENING THE GATES OF DISTANCE' V. CRYSTAL VISIONS, SAVAGE AND CIVILISED VI. ANTHROPOLOGY AND HALLUCINATIONS VII. DEMONIACAL POSSESSION VIII. FETISHISM AND SPIRITUALISM IX. EVOLUTION OF THE IDEA OF GOD X. HIGH GODS OF LOW RACES XI. SUPREME GODS NOT NECESSARILY DEVELOPED OUT OF 'SPIRITS' XII. SAVAGE SUPREME BEINGS XIII. MORE SAVAGE SUPREME BEINGS XIV. AHONE. TI-RA-WÁ. NÀ-PI. PACHACAMAC. TUI LAGA. TAA-ROA XV. THE OLD DEGENERATION THEORY XVI. THEORIES OF JEHOVAH XVII. CONCLUSION. APPENDICES. A. OPPOSITIONS OF SCIENCE B. THE POLTERGEIST AND HIS EXPLAINERS C. CRYSTAL-GAZING D. CHIEFS IN AUSTRALIA. INDEX

THE MAKING OF RELIGION. I. INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER

II

SCIENCE AND 'MIRACLES'

III

ANTHROPOLOGY AND RELIGION

IV

'OPENING THE GATES OF DISTANCE'

V

CRYSTAL VISIONS, SAVAGE AND CIVILISED

VI

ANTHROPOLOGY AND HALLUCINATIONS

VII

DEMONIACAL POSSESSION

VIII

FETISHISM AND SPIRITUALISM

IX

EVOLUTION OF THE IDEA OF GOD

X

HIGH GODS OF LOW RACES

XI

SUPREME GODS NOT NECESSARILY DEVELOPED OUT OF 'SPIRITS'

XII

SAVAGE SUPREME BEINGS

XIII

MORE SAVAGE SUPREME BEINGS

XIV

AHONE. TI-RA-WÁ. NÀ-PI. PACHACAMAC. TUI LAGA. TAA-ROA

XV

THE OLD DEGENERATION THEORY

XVI

THEORIES OF JEHOVAH

XVII

CONCLUSION

APPENDICES

APPENDIX A. OPPOSITIONS OF SCIENCE

APPENDIX B

THE POLTERGEIST AND HIS EXPLAINERS

APPENDIX C

CRYSTAL-GAZING

APPENDIX D

CHIEFS IN AUSTRALIA

INDEX

Book of the Dead, 286, 303

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Andrew Lang

Published by Good Press, 2019

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The phenomena were cases of healing, many of them surprising, of cataleptic rigidity, and of insensibility to pain, among visitors to the tomb of the Abbé Paris (1731). Had the cases been judicially examined (all medical evidence was in their favour), and had they been proved false, the cause of Hume would have profited enormously. A strong presumption would have been raised against the miracles of Christianity. But Hume applauds the wisdom of not giving his own theory this chance of a triumph. The cataleptic seizures were of the sort now familiar to science. These have, therefore, emerged from the miraculous. In fact, the phenomena which occurred at the tomb of the Abbé Paris have emerged almost too far, and now seem in danger of being too readily and too easily accepted. In 1887 MM. Binet and Féré, of the school of the Salpêtrière, published in English a popular manual styled 'Animal Magnetism.' These authors write with great caution about such alleged phenomena as the reading, by the hypnotised patient, of the thoughts in the mind of the hypnotiser. But as to the phenomena at the tomb of the Abbé Paris, they say that 'suggestion explains them.'[4] That is, in the opinion of MM. Binet and Féré the so-called 'miracles' really occurred, and were worked by 'the imagination,' by 'self-suggestion.'

The most famous case—that of Mlle. Coirin—has been carefully examined by

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