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

Anthropology has long since taught us that primitive religion is not confined to a worship of the stars.

From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)

The first, of which Confucius is in some sort the founder, is called the “Doctrine of the Lettered;” the second is regarded by its professors as the primitive religion of the ancient inhabitants of China.

From The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies by White, Catherine Ann

The Eskimo have one sort of primitive religion, the Indians quite another sort.

From Harper's Round Table, July 30, 1895 by Various