Research Catalog

Title

Religion in human affairs / by Clifford Kirkpatrick.

Author

Kirkpatrick, Clifford, 1898-1971

Publication

New York, Wiley; London, Chapman & Hall, 1929.

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Details

Description

xiii, 530 pages diagram; 21 cm.

Series Statement

Wiley social science series

Uniform Title

Wiley social science series

Subject

• Religion and sociology
• Religion and science
• Religion > History
• Christian sociology
• religious history
• sociology of religion
• Christian sociology
• Religion
• Religion and science
• Religion and sociology

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 491-498.

Contents

The beginning of religion -- What is religion? -- Definitions of religion stressing belief -- Religion as a search for values -- Definitions emphasizing emotion -- A working definition of religion -- Tylor's doctrine of animism -- The origin of belief in spirits -- Belief in a future life -- Animistic origin of religion -- Spencer's theory of ancestor worship -- The origin of belief in spirits -- Belief in a future life -- Animistic origin of religion -- Spencer's theory of ancestor worship -- The origin of belief in spirits -- The spirit world -- The dogma of original ancestral ghost worship -- Worship of non-human objects -- The origin of deities -- Evolution of ecclesiastical institutions -- Durkheim's sociological theory -- Durkheim's definition and approach -- The crowd psychology theory of religious emotion -- The origin of the idea of a soul -- The origin of mourning rites -- Criticism of Durkheim's theory -- The sources of religion -- Physical factors in religion -- Psychological factors in religion -- Emotional factors in religion -- Intellectual factors creating a supernatural world -- The present status of the Spencer-Tylor theory -- Other factors in the origin of the ghost soul idea -- Social factors in religion -- The family -- The state -- Social inheritance of religion -- The animistic world -- Limitations of animism -- Manaism -- Magic and religion -- Conventional distinctions between magic and religion -- Nature and types of magic -- Magic based on assumed repetition -- Magic based on autistic thinking -- Will-magic -- Adequacy of classification of magic -- A synthetic distinction between religion, magic, and other culture patterns -- Ritual -- The evolution of religion -- The evolutionary theory of religion -- The origin and development of gods -- Creator gods -- Change and fusion of deities -- Immortality -- Conclusion as to trends in religious development.

LCCN

29014115

OCLC

• ocm01128609
• 1128609
• SCSB-183628

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library