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James Henry Leuba. The Psychological Origin and the Nature of Religion
The Psychological Origin and the Nature of Religion
Table of Contents
Preface
The Fundamental Nature of Religion
THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ORIGIN AND THE NATURE OF RELIGION
CHAPTER I
Footnotes
Three Types of Behaviour Differentiated
CHAPTER II
Footnotes
Origin of the Ideas of Ghosts, Nature-Beings, and Gods
CHAPTER III
Footnotes
Magic and Religion
CHAPTER IV
Footnotes
The Original Emotion of Primitive Religious Life
CHAPTER V
Footnotes
Concluding Remarks on the Nature and the Function of Religion
CHAPTER VI
Footnotes
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James Henry Leuba
Published by Good Press, 2020
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But the battle against intellectualistic and affectivistic conceptions of Religion is not yet won. The recent definitions of Tiele and of Kaftan show only too clearly how strong the tendency remains to identify Religion with some feeling or emotion.
As the amazing discrepancies and contradictions offered by authorised definitions of Religion arise, in my opinion, primarily from a faulty psychology, a moment may profitably be devoted to an untechnical statement of the present teaching of that science upon the relation existing between the three acknowledged modes of consciousness—willing, feeling, and thinking.
