10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POLYDAEMONISM»
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polydaemonism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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50 Classic Philosophy Books
The idea of God is to be found, it will be generally admitted, not only in
monotheistic religions, but in polytheistic religions also; and, as polytheisms have
developed out of polydaemonism, that is to say, as the personal beings or
powers of ...
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The Idea of God in Early Religions
II THE IDEA OF GOD IN MYTHOLOGY The idea of God is to be found, it will be
generally admitted, not only in monotheistic religions, but in polytheistic religions
also ; and, as polytheisms have developed out of polydaemonism, that is to say, ...
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Modes of Thought: A Study in the Anthropology of Law and ...
Polydaemonism. Polytheism. The turn from animism to polydaemonism and
polytheism has often been described (see, e.g., v. Glasenapp 1960: 247, who
correctly notices that the transitions may be gradual). One method for such a
transition ...
Wolfgang Fikentscher, 2004
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Urja Utpaadan Ka Arthshastra
The transition, in short, is from polydaemonism to polytheism. Tribal religion
consists in polydaemonism, the worship of many spirits, which cannot be
dignified with the name of gods because they have no personal history or
individual values.
Chandrakanta Sharma, 1997
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The Quran and the Secular Mind: A Philosophy of Islam
Atthetribal stageofculture, there was belief in and worship of many spirits (
polydaemonism), including thoseofnatural objects and of the dead. Thiswas the
precursor of polytheism which required additionally the naming of spirits and ...
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Comparative Religion: A Short Outline
These high gods are figures that are found side by side with forms of polytheism
or polydaemonism, even if they do not belong to them. What, then, is the
inference to be drawn from this juxtaposition ? It may well be that the figures of
these high ...
Alan Coates Bouquet, 1941
These high gods are figures that are found side by side with forms of polytheism
or polydaemonism, even if they do not belong to them. What, then, is the
inference to be drawn from this juxtaposition? It may well be that the figures of
these high ...
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From Religion to Philosophy: A Study in the Origins of ...
This departmental polydaemonism preserves all the main features we have
described above. The undifferentiated Chaos splitting into the two contrary
segments we can trace from Hesiod's cosmogony, through Anaximander, to
Parmenides,1 ...
Francis MacDonald Cornford, 2010
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Muhammad, Prophet of God
... more on his three purported daughters — Manat, Allat, and al-Uzza — and on
the quasi-divine beings known collectively as the jinn, than on Allah.34 (Both Tor
Andrae and Bernard Lewis term pre-Islamic Arabian religion “polydaemonism.
The religion of the Hebrew ancestors was usually described as a form of animism
, specifically, a polydaemonism. This, however, is quite erroneous. Aside from the
question- ability of the method involved, it is doubtful in the light of all that is ...
