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Origin of religions
book J.R.
definition
religio
earliest meaning
III century
christians
verb religare
to bind togethere
19th century
history of religion
discovery & study
of religions (Asia and other countries)
wider concept of religion
according to different
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Cicero
verb relegere
to assemble
religion = to
assemble
the anchestral worship
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transmit
sociologists
identify
3 essential elements in rel.
the community
the sacred
system of belief
rel. histor.
20th century
have
rediscovered
studied
immense
spiritual heritage
of humanity
considering the
importance
of the religious
phenomena
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diversity
of relig.
Max Muller
classif. world. relig.
geographical distribution
typological distribution
Zaehener
distinction between
great mystical religions
interior exp. transcendent
Taoism
Buddhism
Hinduism
great prophetic religions
characterized by a
revelation
perceived as
the word of God
Christianity
Judaism
Zoroastrianism
Islam
further
distinction
2 main groups
ethnic religions
religions that have a founder
comparative research
accent on
2 factors
culture
revelation
religious
events
are linked to
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U. Bianchi
costitutive elements
religious phenomena
rites
myths
belief
institutions
historical and cultural processes
religiousness of prehist. man
dualism
polytheism
gnosticism
discovery of
religions
from
expansion new world
christian missionary
came to know
primitive religions
founders of
religios ethnology
Lafitau
study/understand
archaic man
to understand his religiosity
approaches
Levi Bruhl
rel. exp.
primit. man
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de Brosses
origins of religions
are found in
fetishism
worship of
plants
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sun/moon
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stone
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not a symbol
arch. man
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G.B. De Vico
crusades
expansion of Islam
church missionary activity
in Orient
discovery of
hiduism
zoroastrian
veda r.
buddhism
expansion of Roman Emp.
in contact
diff. religions
19th century
birth of
science of religions
history of religions
autonomous science
discovery of many religions
with no writing
religious ethnology
focued on
archaic people
founders
J.F. Lafitau
rediscov. of relig. herit. of humanity
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Ch. de Brosses
how arch.man
discovered
the Supreme
Being
R. Petazzoni
heavenly aspect of the S.B
M. Eliade
S.B belonged to mythical thoughts
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North Am
Tierra del Fuego
Africa
Lord of the cosmos
Lived among men
Creator
South Am.
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characteristic
features
mythical
thought
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primitive
rel.
pre-vedic
female goddess
numerous terra-cotta figurines
3 faced god
sitting in a yoga position
with a horned crown on his head
bronze age
Pakistan & India
subero-babilonian
man rel.
Mesopotamia
homo religiosus
perceived
true dimensions of the sacred
sacred architecture of the temples
sacred art of the statues
transcendency of the gods
breadth of rituals related to
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believed
that fate
was expressed
by natural phenomena
rel exp.
based on
contemp. nat.
ordained
kings
priests
whorship daily
by means of blood sacrifices
portareyied their deities
human features
religious mex
pharaonic Egypt
religious experience
based on
contemplation of nature
the wonder of creation
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Hermopolis theologians
introduced
entire system of cosmogonic symbols
island of fire
world egg
original hill
god in a lotus flower
China Dao
Yin/Yang
belief in afterlife
conception of the sacred
based on the alternation of
yin
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yang
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Indo-European
rel. of India
vedic gods
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trilogy of gods
war gods
fertility gods
sovereign gods
hiduism
ritual life
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message of
Zoroaster
Indo-European in Iran
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God revealed
monotheistic religions
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deities represented
by figures holding powers
with
human body
animal head
wealth of documentation
cuneiform tablets
reveal
poems
myths
telling the
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thoughts
of
spirits
later
transformed
gods
saw nature
populated
with
genies
spritis
demons
primit. man
invented
expiations
food offerings
prayers
rel. rites
fire
death
Tylor
notion of
the soul
to all the beings
of the cosmos
based
on
symbols
signs
develop.
rel. consc.
step 3
awarness
sacr. story
fluorishing
cave art
step 4
natuf. civil.
first rep. deities
step 2
discovery
mystery
life
death
afterlife
step 5
awarness
divine presence
rise
temples
earthly dwellings of the gods
sanctuaries
step 6
birth & spread
3 great monoth. rel.
man discovered
1 God
creator
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God's
revelation to man
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step 1
M.E.
mere contempt. sky
consciousness
of height
discovery
transcendency
based on
contemplation
of nature
day/night
sunset
rainbow
movements of the stars
which have
amounted
to a
revelation
myths
came later
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vault of heaven
mana
totem
taboo
totem
north Am. tribe
Ojibwa
designates
clan related to
guardian animal
indicates
guardian animal
attributed to a person
totems poles
entrance of the village
represent
succession of the clan ancestors
was found
Oceania
Australia
north Am.
worship of animals
animated by a
collective consciousness
E.D.
religious system of primit. peopel
considering it
the very origin of religions
most primitive & elementary rel.
taboo
melanesian - polynesian term
stand for
limits pertaining to
activities
sanctuaries
things
food
rituals
objects
sacred places
defining
the rules
to be observed
when approached or neglected
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particual people
priest
king
Frazer
used the term T.
as a universl. rel. catheg.
to indicate
negative
prohibitive
dimensions
of the
sacred
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profane
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mana
indicates
force
impersonal power
possesed by spirits
can be communicated
through
stones
bone
water
essential concept
in the developemnt of reli.
polynesian term
religious mex
of mural art
graphism
accompanied
develp. of symbolic function
mythograms
M.E.
it was plausible
knowledge of certain myths
by paleol. people
Leroi-Gorhan
represent
certain characters
carrying out
mythological operations
typical of paleol. sanct.
bear witnesses of mythical tales
or the foundation of myths
cave art
constitutes
first evidence of man's ability to
comprehend the cosmos
live the sacred experience within it
organize his world
theory of hunting magic
Henry Breuil
representation of wounded animals
fruitful hunting expedition
called the performanced of
particual rites
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clear evidence
Montespin cave (Fr)
religious
feeling
is innate
in each person
evolution
of rel.
derives from
prehistory
neolithic
paleolithic
derived from
ethnological
sociological
causes
practices
precurses
develop. of
systematic religions
pharaonic Eg.
Indo-Europe
sumero-babylonia
culminate
in the birth
3 great
monot. rel.
experience
of the sacred
important role of
culture
in the life of
H.R.
related to a
group
society
M.E.
&
G. Dumezil
analyzed as
social phenomen
Durkheim
Mauss
human expr. of transc.
R.O.
man's religious
consciousness
initiation rites - existed before myths
images of the deities
praying images - hands raised towards heaven
belief in the afterlife
conteplation of nature
from hierophany
to theophany
for thousand years
H.R.
adopted
cosmic symbols
to fulfill his experience
of the sacred
heavenly vault
sun
moon
stars
plants
animals
air
water
fire
man - woman - child
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4000 years ago
the divine
appeared
to man as
theophany
Abraham
received
the message
and the promis
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