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Indigenous and Ancient Religions
The Threshold of Religion
- First published1909
- TraditionIndigenous & Ancient Religions
- Shelf155 books
A collection of essays by Tylor's Oxford successor arguing that religion began not with a theory of souls but with feelings of awe before an impersonal power. Marett's term 'animatism' and his use of the Pacific concept of mana shaped debates about the origins of religion for decades.
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