From this perspectiveĮarliest religious beliefs were merely attempts to understand and bring The world of matter-in terms that can be perceived by the five senses.
Not be found in the world of spirit, but rather in What was "religion" and where did it comeįrom? Like Sigmund Freud, Frazer believed that the answer would
Frazerĭeveloped his theories on how religion could have evolved into suchĪn essential part of human life. It was from this new perspective that James G. "unscientific." Gradually secular materialism infiltrated the academic worldĪnd eventually replaced the Judeo-Christian ethic as the dominant worldview. Philosophy, that religion started to become viewed as irrational and It was at this point, guided by materialistic-based This element of human activity has been understoodĪs rational, necessary and basic from our earliest beginnings up until about the middle of the to Enlil in one tongue gaveĮnmerkar and the Lord of Aratta, Sumerian Epic, c.2000 BCĪmong all living creatures by the fact that we have a capacity and a needįor religious expression. the whole universe, the people in unison.
0 kommentar(er)
