Religion in Primitive Cultures

A Study in Ethnophilosophy

Wilhelm Dupré

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN:
  9789027975317
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110870053
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Biblical Studies

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Table of contents

• PREFACE
• INTRODUCTION: A STUDY IN ETHNOPHILOSOPHY
• 1. PRIMITIVITY, CULTURE AND RELIGION
• 1. Primitivity and the Study of Religion
• 1.1 The Problem of a Protoculture
• 1.2 Criteria of Primitivity
• 1.3 Culture and Reflection
• 2. Historical Sketch of the Study on Primitive Religion(s)
• 2.1 Nature Mythology and Pan-Babylonism
• 2.2 Early Ethnological Theories Concerning the Origin of Religion
• 2.3 Manism, Animism, Preanimism: The Classical Theories
• 2.4 Social-anthropological and Psychological Approaches to Religion
• 2.5 Phenomenology of Religion
• 2. GEOGRAPHICAL SURVEY AND DESCRIPTION OF PRIMITIVE CULTURES AND THEIR RELIGION
• 1. The Typology of Primitive Cultures
• 2. Toward a Definition of Religion
• 3. Religion in African Cultures
• 4. Religions of Asian Primitives
• 4.1 The Indian Subcontinent
• 4.2 Southeast Asia
• 4.3 Inner Asia
• 4.4 Northern Siberia
• 5. Religions of Oceania and Australia
• 5.1 Oceania
• 5.2 Australia
• 6. Religion in North and South American Cultures
• 6.1 North America
• 6.2 South America
• 7. Bibliographical Appendix
• 3. CONSTITUTIVE ANALYSIS: A METHODOLOGICAL INTERLUDE
• 1. The Symbolic Implication of Homo Existens
• 2. The Religious Implication of Homo Symbolicus
• 3. Symbols of Religion
• 4. Religion and Magic
• 5. Conclusion
• 4. THE RELIGION OF THE AFRICAN PYGMIES
• 1. The Forest World of the Bambuti Pygmies
• 2. Bambuti Anthropology
• 3. Idea and Function of Megbe-Totemism
• 4. Bambuti Mythology
• 4.1 The Mythic Beginning
• 4.2 The Culture Hero and Bringer of Blessings
• 4.3 The Mythic A-mythic Origin
• 5. Bambuti Cult
• 5.1 The Bambuti Cult as Recalled Mythology
• 5.2 The Bambuti Cult as Mythic Reactualization
• 5.3 The Magic of the Bambuti
• 6. Religion and the Social Order
• 5. THE RELIGION OF THE ARTIC HUNTERS: THE ESKIMOS
• 1. Life and Religion Among the Eskimos
• 2. Bladder Feast and Fall Ceremonial
• 3. Shamanism
• 4. Eskimo Mythology
• 6. THREE FACETS OF PRIMITIVE RELIGIONS
• 1. The Two Worlds of the Asian Negritos
• 1.1 General Traits of the Religion of the Negritos
• 1.2 The Mythology of the Semang Negritos
• 1.3 Blood Sacrifice and Pano Ritual
• 2. The Totemic Religion of Australia
• 2.1 The Totemic Myth
• 2.2 The Totemistic Culture
• 2.3 The Totemistic Cult
• 3. Religion in the Dissolving Culture of the Kaingang (Brazil)
• 3.1 Religious Ideas of the Gé-speaking People
• 3.2 General Traits of Kaingang Religion
• 3.3 Between Self-love and Doom
• 7. PATTERNS OF PRIMITIVE RELIGION
• 1. The Differential Universality of Primitive Religion
• 1.1 The Culture Hero
• 1.2 Prayer and Taboo
• 1.3 Divine Being
• 1.4 Primitive Religion and Religious Phenomena
• 2. The Theogonic Significance of Primitive Religion
• 2.1 Functional Truth and the Interpretation of Myth
• 2.2 Myth and Meaning
• 2.3 Mythicity, Consciousness and Religion
• 2.4 Unio Mythica
• 3. The Theistic Outlook of Primitive Religion
• 3.1 The Divine Person
• 3.2 The Dialectics of Divine Presence
• 3.3 The God of Primitive Religion
• 4. Primitive Religion and Anthropogenesis
• 4.1 Survival and Religion
• 4.2 Conscience, Adulthood and Priestly Existence
• 4.3 Mythicity and Thinking
• 5. Cultural Perception and the Dynamics of Primitive Religion
• 8. PRIMITIVE RELIGION AND MODERN MAN
• 1. Reassessment of the Studies on Primitive Religion(s)
• 2. Primitive Religion and the History of Religions
• 3. Primitive Religion and Philosophy
• 4. Primitive Religion and the End of the Western World
• REFERENCES
• INDEX OF AUTHORS
• INDEX OF SUBJECTS