primitive religion
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"Animal spirits" sounds like the latest show on the Discovery Channel or the basis of a primitive religion.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2012
At Michigan, for example, primitive religion is taught in anthropology classes, the background of the Bible in the Near Eastern studies program.
From Time Magazine Archive
And yet the better understanding of these aspects may throw light on several points connected with primitive religion and the history of early civilisation, indeed over the whole range of what is called Völkerpsychologie.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
They have made their work literature rather than science, and told us of the Irish peasantry rather than of the primitive religion of mankind, or whatever else the folk-lorists are on the gad after.
From Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
Alarmed at the corruption that prevailed in the empire, he sought to restore the ancient customs and to strengthen the primitive religion.
From Women of Early Christianity by Brittain, Alfred
