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Veröffentlichung:	März 2007
Genre:	Philosophie
ISBN:	9781406746549
EAN-Code:	9781406746549
Verlag:	Maurice Press
Einband:	Kartoniert
Sprache:	English
Dimensionen:	H 216 mm / B 140 mm / D 20 mm
Gewicht:	475 gr
Seiten:	336
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PAUL RADIN Primitive Religion ITS NATURE AND ORIGIN NEW YORK mfSfS PSi MCMXXXVII THE VIKING PRESS PUBLISHED IN SEPTEMBER 1937 COPYRIGHT 1937 BY PAUL RADIN PRINTED IN U. S. A. BY VAIL-BALLOU PRESS, INC. DISTRIBUTED IN CANADA BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY o OF CANADA, LTD. To DORIS Preface The following work is an attempt to describe, in brief compass, the religion and the religious experience of aboriginal peoples. While concrete facts have, I hope, never been neglected, they have been made subsidiary to my mam purpose, that of present ing the religions encountered in simple societies, in such manner that the reader will be in a position to understand the individuals and the forces that have been at work in fashioning the basic ex pressions which religion has there assumed. I have throughout sought to interpret religion in terms of human personalities and not in terms of generalized men and women who are made to serve as a kind of academic cement for vague ideas and still vaguer emotions. For that reason, in spite of my best endeavours, I have derived little help from the works of those of my prede cessors who insisted upon emphasizing what they termed the psychological side of religion. These scholars, I cannot but feel, have been playing what might be called a form of intellectual golf, using conceptual pellets to which they have given such names as supernatural power, awe-inspiring, mystical thrill a game, moreover, that seems to have been played in an ideological heaven where, at the end of each day, they find themselves ef fectively and decisively bunkered. Their method has led to the treatment of religion as if it were completely divorced both from life and from the vicissitudes of theeconomic order in which each religion is so intimately embedded, and it has contributed, in no small degree, toward making the study of religion an arti ficial and subjective contemplation of verbalized facts and hy postasized events. viii Preface Throughout this book I have chosen my material only from first-hand descriptions and have, wherever possible, used infor mation given in the words of native informants or presented by scholars who knew intimately the culture and the language of the people they were depicting. This procedure has not been prompted by pedantry but by the simple desire to have my presentation and my interpretations rest on as accurate a basis of fact as was possible. For the same reason I have deemed it best to quote the pertinent facts at substantial length instead of con tenting myself with short and often meaningless excerpts. In the present condition of acute ignorance which prevails among lay readers with regard to aboriginal religions, the first duty of the scholar is to them. It is difficult to know whom I have to thank first and to whom I am most indebted for many of the ideas and interpretations here advanced. For more than twenty-five years I have been fairly consistently occupied with the subject of religion, particu larly aboriginal religion. During that time I probably have dipped into every book and monograph, large or small, that has appeared. I naturally do not remember all of them or the extent to which I have borrowed or even plagiarized from them, but to forestall any claims of undue originality that may be falsely attributed to me, I hereby humbly and sincerely acknowledge their inspiration, large and small, and surrender all rights topriority. To one source of inspiration, however, I do wish to acknowledge a deep and abiding debt of gratitude, to the Win nebago Indians, who enabled me to obtain an accurate and com plete account of their religion and whose influence has been paramount in shaping my notions of aboriginal religions...