The Meaning of Religion
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2017
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Martinus Nijhoff (1960)
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Cosmology, The worship of the sky and of celestial bodies, The worship of earth gods, Particular gods and gods personifying concepts, The worship of animals, Totemism, Animistic and dynamistic ideas, Anthropology, Man's origin, Man's 'vital principle', The soul, Attributes and capacities of man, Similarity and difference between man and god, Religious speculation concering man's essence, man's law of life, The course of the individual's life, Life is society, Cultus, Sacred Places, Sacred times, Sacred images, Cultic acts, Prayer, The oath and the curse, Ordeals, Ritual purification, Sacraments, Sacrifice