Classics in Sociology: A Course of Selected Reading by Authorities (Essay & General Literary Index Reprint S.) - Hardcover

Macrae, Donald Gunn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0804613524 ISBN 13: 9780804613521

Publisher: Kennikat Press, 1972

Synopsis

Excerpt from Classics in Sociology: A Course of Selected Reading by Authorities

Religion, so far as it receives external expression in human history, exhibits four factors or sides of itself. These factors are ritual, emotion, belief, rationalization. There is definite organized procedure, which is ritual 5 there are definite types of emotional expression 5 there are definitely expressed be liefs 5 and there is the adjustment of these beliefs into a system, internally coherent and coherent with other beliefs.

But all these four factors are not Of equal influence through out all historical epochs. The religious idea emerged gradually into human life, at first barely disengaged from other human interests. The order of the emergence of these factors was in the inverse order of the depth of their religious importance first ritual, then emotion, then belief, then rationalization.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Kennikat Press
• Publication date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804613524
• ISBN 13: 9780804613521
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 349