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
The paganism of antiquity is based on a primitive religion, i.e. it is originally in the main homogeneous with the religions nowadays met with in the so-called primitive peoples.
From Atheism in Pagan Antiquity by Andersen, Ingeborg
The Sumerian element continued to survive in the Babylonian people, and the magic which was its primitive religion survived also.
From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
The primitive religion is therefore only implicit religion.
From The Approach to Philosophy by Perry, Ralph Barton
