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

They are these: First, was Polytheism or Monotheism the primitive religion?

From The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 11, November, 1880 by Walker, Aaron

To imitate such was the old Celtic religion as it was the primitive religion of most other peoples.

From The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3, January 1876 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad by Various

Now he was chiefly concerned with the Terranovans themselves—how they lived, what they thought, what sort of primitive religion they had, and so on.

From The Worshippers by Emshwiller, Ed