ANTH 2550 Lecture Notes - Edward Burnett Tylor, Cultural Relativism, Ethnocentrism
29 Aug 2014
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2 the historical development of the anthropology of religion thursday, Anthropology develops out of history, travel literature, the reports and journals of explorers, and out of an intellectual milieu of philosophy and theology. Religion was at the very heart of classical social theory. auguste comte (1778-1857) coined the new term sociology in 1838. Max muller (1823-1900) argued that the naturist theory showed the connection of religious belief and nature. Spencer (1820-1903) said that the origin of religion was in the human experience of dreams. Dreaming about our ancestors is constructing the notion of ghost earliest form of worship. E. b. tylor (1832-1917) observed behaviour of first nations people. He argued that there are two identities that occupy our bodies. He argues that animism is the origin of religion. Robert r. marett (1909) thought early humans conceived the domain of the supernatural as a raw uncontrollable of power called animatism belief in the impersonal power (mana).
