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100 1 _aBrinton, Daniel G.
_q(Daniel Garrison),
_d1837-1899
245 1 0 _aReligions of Primitive Peoples
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2020
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2020-01-22
508 _aProduced by Julia Miller and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
520 _a"Religions of Primitive Peoples" by Daniel G. Brinton is a scholarly work focusing on the study of early religious beliefs and practices, written in the late 19th century. The text aims to explore the origins, methods, and definitions associated with the scientific study of primitive religions, emphasizing a comparative approach to understanding various belief systems across different cultures. The opening of the book sets the stage for a series of lectures that will investigate primitive religions using historical, comparative, and psychological methods. Brinton discusses the fundamental characteristics of "primitive" peoples and their beliefs, emphasizing that religion is a universal trait of humanity, present in every known culture. He introduces the idea that these religious expressions arise not from theological constructs, but from innate human thought processes and experiences, which he aims to unravel throughout the lectures. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aReligion
653 _aMythology
653 _aReligions -- History
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61220
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