Acosta, Father, 193.
Agnostic, 4, 6.
Agries, 143.
Alfoors, 194.
Algonquins, 143.
All-father, 190.
Ancestors, 162.
Ancestor worship, 52, 53; may be arrested by religion, 53, 54, 55.
Andaman Islands, 169.
Animal sacrifice, 209; animal meal, 178.
Animals, worshipped, 111.
Animism, 204, 215, 216, 217; and magic, 89, 90, 98; and fetichism, 116,
117, 118; polytheism, 131; not religion, 136.
Anticipation, of nature, 73.
Antinomy, the, of religious feeling, 174.
Anzam, 170.
Applied science of religion, 2 ff.; looks to the future, 3; is used by
the missionary as a practical man, 15, 16; its object, 18, 21.
Ashantee Land, 153, 155.
Atheist, 4, 6.
Atman, 247.
At-one-ment, 178.
Attention, 9, 10.
Australia, 183 ff.
Australian tribes, religion of, 27, 28.
Aztecs, 188, 190.
Basutos, 181.
Becoming, 214.
Being, is in process of evolution, 214; still incomplete, 214.
Belief, and desire, 39, 40; in immortality and God, 31, 32; erroneous,
and magic, 79; in magic, 85; religious, 137.
Bhogaldai, 194.
Billiards, 78.
Blood, and rain, 161.
Bones, of animals, hung up, 78.
Boorah, 162 ff.
Bosman, 109 ff., 112, 113.
Bread, prayer for daily, 181.
Buddhism, 247 ff.; and immortality, 36, 37, 61, 62, 63; its fundamental
illogicality, 66; its strength, 66.
Buro, 194.
Buzzard, 76.
Byamee, 162 ff., 191, 198.
Cause, and conditions, 77, 85.
Celebes, 194.
Ceram, 181.
Ceremonies, for rain, 161.
Chain of existence, 65.
Charms, and prayers, 150, 115, 152.
Chattels, 241, 243.
Cherokee Indian, 50, 76, 77.
Chicomecoatl, 193.
Childhood, 98.
China, 194, 197.
Christianity, 239 ff., 258, 259, 260; the highest form of religion, 15,
18, 22, 23; and other forms of religion, 26, 27, 28, 35; alone teaches
self-sacrifice as the way to life eternal, 69; and sacrifice, 209.
Clouds, 153; of smoke and rain, 161, 162.
Communal purposes, and magic, 91.
Communion, 175; not so much an intellectual belief as an object of
desire, 43, 44; of man with God the basis of morality, 62; logically
incompatible with Buddhism, 63; involves personal existence, 67; with
God, 137; sought in prayer, 172; and sacrifice, 172; in Mexico, 193;
maintained by sacramental eating, 195; annually, 196; renewed, 198; the
true end of sacrifice, 207, 208; between man and God, 249; imperfect,
257.
Community, 254; and magic, 81, 97; and its God, 91.
Community, the, and fetiches, 122; and its gods, 135; and prayer, 146,
147, 148, 166; and the individual, 218, 239.
Comparative method, 20, 21.
Comparative Philology, 20.
Comparison, method of, 17; implies similarity in the religions
compared, 19; and implies difference also, 20; contrasted with
comparative method, 21; deals with differences, 22.
Comte, 213.
Conciliation, and coercion, of spirits, 121.
Congregations, 170.
Contagious magic, 85.
Continuation theory, 55, 56.
Corn, eaten sacramentally, 194, 195.
Corn-maiden, 195.
Corn-mother, 195.
Corn-spirit, 196, 199, 200.
Cotton-mother, 194.
Creator, 170.
Creek Indians, 194.
Custom, 244; protected by the god of the community, 219.
Dances, 162; and prayer, 153.
Dead, the, 38; return, 47; spirits of the, 92.
Death, a mistake according to the primitive view, 44, 45; or else due
to magic, 45, 46, 80.
Deer, 74.
Degradation of religion, 24.
Deification, 53.
Deiphobus, 54.
Delaware prayer, 145.
Departmental deities, 190.
Desacralisation, 186.
Desire for immortality, is the origin of the belief in immortality, 40,
41; is not a selfish desire, 42; the root of all evils, 66; religious,
115, 116, 121; and prayer, 142, 149; and the worship of the gods, 135;
and religion, 158, 166; of the community, 163.
Desire of all nations, 115, 173.
Dieri, 50, 161, 164.
Difference, implies similarity, 27.
Differences, to be taken into account by method of comparison, 22;
their value, 23, 24; postulated by science, 24.
Differentiation of the homogeneous, 23, 24, 25.
Domesticated plants and animals, 190.
Dreams, and the soul, 37; their emotional value, 42.
Drought, 164.
Dugongs, 164, 165.
Dynamics, of society, 246, 255.
East Indies, 181.
Eating of the god, 193.
Eating tiger, 74, 89.
Ellis, Colonel, 113, 120, 121, 122.
Emotional element, in fetichism and religion, 136.
End, the, gives value to what we do, 13; and is a matter of will, 13;
of society, 251, 253; a category unknown to science, 255.
Ends, anti-social, 81.
Error, 25.
Euahlayi, 48, 162, 191, 198.
Evolution, 214; of religion, 6, 239, 247, 253; and progress, 9, 12, 24,
264; theory of, 23; and the history of religion, 172, 173; of humanity,
239, 244, 246; law of, 252; end of, 254, 256.
Faith, 137, 238; the conviction that we can attain our ends, 14; shared
by the religious man with all practical men, 14, 15; exhibited in
adopting method of comparison in religion, 17; in Christianity, 18;
banishes fear of comparisons, 18, 19; in the communion of man with God
manifests itself in the desire for immortality, 68.
Family, and society, 98.
Famine, 205.
Father, 98.
Feeling, religious, 137; moral and religious, 81.
Fetich, defined, 111, 112; offerings made to it, 112; not merely an
"inanimate," 113, 116; but a spirit, 116, 117; possesses personality
and will, 117; aids in the accomplishment of desire, 117, 119; may be
made, 120; is feared, 120; has no religious value, 120, 121; distinct
from a god, 122; subservient to its owner, 122; has no plurality of
worshippers, 122; its principal object to work evil, 123; serves its
owner only, 127; permanence of its worship, 129; has no specialised
function, 129, 130; is prayed to and talked with, 132; worshipped by an
individual, 134; and not by the community, 135, 170.
Fetichism, 105 ff., 215; as the lowest form of religion, 106, 107; as
the source of religious values, 107, 108; and magic, 90; and religion,
114, 120, 136; the law of its evolution, 119, 120; condemned by public
opinion, 122, 123; offensive to the morality of the native, 126; and at
variance with his religion, 126, 127; not the basis of religion, 127;
and polytheism, 128, 131, 132, 133; and fear, 136.
Finality of Christianity, 258, 259.
First-fruit ceremonials, 183, 184; and the gods, 185, 187; an act of
worship, 187, 188.
First-fruits, 181.
Flesh of the divine being, 196.
Fly-totem, 165, 166.
Folk-lore, 85.
Food supply, 205.
Footprints, 74.
Forms of religion, 19.
Framin women, 152, 153, 155, 156.
Frazer, J. G., 50, 76, 78, 79, 83, 92, 94, 102, 153, 157, 158, 160,
180, 192, 194-200, 202, 205.
Fuegians, 169.
Funerals, and prayer, 163.
Future, knowledge of the, 14, 15.
Future life, its relation to morality and religion, 36, 37, 57.
Future punishments, and rewards, 51, 61.
Future world, 52 ff.
Ghosts, 38, 42.
Gift-theory of sacrifice, 206.
God, worshipped by community, 91, 98; a supreme being, 168; etymology
of the word, 133, 134; a personal power, 136, 137; correlative to a
community, 137.
Gods and worshippers, 53; and fetichism, 110; made and broken, 110;
personal, 121; "departmental," 129; their personality, 130, 131; and
the good of the community, 123; and fetiches, 124; are the powers that
care for the welfare of the community, 126, 172; and spirits, 128; "of
a moment," 128, 136; their proper names, 131; worshipped by a
community, 134; and the desires of their worshippers, 134; not evolved
from fetiches, 135; promote the community's good, 135, 137, 167; and
prayer, 140, 147, 148; and morality, 169; of a community identified
with the community, 177; as ethical powers, 215; punish transgression,
220.
Gold Coast, prayer, 143.
Golden Age, 25.
Good, the, 140; and the gods, 137.
Gotama, 64.
_Gott_, and _giessen_, 134.
Grace, 259.
Gratitude, 181.
Great Spirit, the, 143.
Guardian spirits, 111.
Guinea, 197.
Haddon, Dr., 83, 91, 100, 101, 106, 107, 117, 118, 124, 129, 130, 132,
133.
Hades, 58.
Hallucinations, 38.
Happiness, 240.
Hartford Theological Seminary, 1, 22, 106.
Harvest, prayers and sacrifice, 180 ff.
Harvest communion, 188, 189.
Harvest customs, 192, 198, 203.
Harvest supper, 195 ff., 200; its sacramental character, 197.
Health, and disease, 138.
Heaven, kingdom of, 252, 262.
Hebrew prophets, 207, 209.
Hebrews, 54.
Hegel, 213.
Hindoo Koosh, 194.
Historic science, has the historic order for its object, 11; but does
not therefore deny that its facts may have value other than truth
value, 11.
History, of art and literature, 8; of religion, 253, 263.
Ho dirge, 47.
Hobhouse, L. T., 211, 214-216, 222, 223, 226-229, 230, 237.
Hoeffding, H., 44, 166, 173, 254; on fetichism, 106, 114, 115, 121, 124,
128-130, 133-137; on antinomy of religious feeling, 174; and morality,
211, 214-216, 219, 220, 237.
Hollis, Mr., 143 ff.
Homer, 16, 17.
Hom[oe]opathic magic, 80, 85, 93.
Homogeneous, the, 23, 24.
Howitt, Mr., 190.
_Hu, huta_, 134,
Humanitarianism, 214, 215, 236, 244, 246, 247; and morality, 221.
Humanity, 213; its evolution, 244.
Husband, 98.
Ideals, a matter of the will, 13.
Idols, 193.
Illingworth, J. R., 258.
Illusion, 64, 248.
Images, of dough, 193, 196.
Imitative magic, 157.
Immortality, 34 ff.
Incorporation, 178.
Individual, and the community, 218, 239; cannot exist save in society,
225; both a means and an end for society, 240 ff., 246, 247; existence
of, 248; interests of, 250, 251; end of, 253.
Individuality, not destroyed but strengthened by uprooting selfish
desires, 67.
Indo-China, 181, 194.
Indo-European languages, 20.
Infancy, helpless, 98.
Initiation ceremonies, 190, 191; admit to the worship of the gods, 192;
important for theory of sacrifice, 192.
Interests, of the community, 250; and the individual, 250.
Intoning, of prayer, 147.
Israel, 59.
Jaundice, 89.
Jews, 53, 54.
Judgments, of value, 115.
Justice, public, 223, 224 ff.
Kaitish rites, 164, 165.
Kangaroo totem, 197.
Kant, 255.
Karma, 64, 65.
Kei Islands, 156.
Kern Baby, 195.
Khonds of Orissa, and prayer, 139, 167, 171.
Killing of the god, 197.
Kingsley, Miss, 48, 49, 116.
Lake Nyassa, 146.
Lake Superior, 143.
Lang, Andrew, 129, 168, 169, 170.
_L'Annee Sociologique_, 60.
Like produces like, 72, 73, 74, 76, 79, 80, 84, 85, 86, 89, 98, 100,
160, 189.
Litanies, 163.
Love of neighbours, 254.
MacCullough, J. A., 47.
McTaggart, Dr., 49, 50.
Magic, 32, 70 ff.; and murder, 45, 47; a colourable imitation of
science, 71; a spurious system, 71, 72; fraudulent, 75, 76; origin of
belief in, 79; regarded with disapproval, 79; sympathetic or
hom[oe]opathic, 80; offensive to the god of the community, 81; not
prior to religion, 97; condemned when inconsistent with the public
good, 97; and anti-social purposes, 98; decline of, 100; and the
impossible, 101; private and public, 83; nefarious, 83; beneficent, 87,
88; does not imply spirits, 89; and religion, 92 ff.; fundamentally
different, 95, 158, 160; mimics science and religion, 103; and the
degradation of religion, 150, 151, 152; and prayer, 153, 154; priority
of, to religion, 154, 157; and sacramental eating, 199-204. _See_
Appendix.
Magician, his personality, 87.
Mahommedanism, 259.
Maize-mother, 190, 193, 194, 195, 196.
Maker, the, 168.
Manganja, 146, 160.
Mara tribe, 164.
Marett, R. R., 151.
Marriage law, 222, 227.
Masai, and prayer, 143, 144, 145, 153-156, 162.
Master of Life, 143.
Mauss, M., 60.
Maya, 64.
Medical advice, 76.
Mexico, 193, 194, 199, 200.
Mimetic magic, 85.
Minahassa, 194.
Mind of Humanity, 213.
Missionary, 6, 140, 210, 211, 257, 265; interested in the value rather
than the chronological order of religions, 12; being practical, uses
applied science, 15; and method of comparison, 17; and notes
resemblances, 22; requires scientific knowledge of the material he has
to work on, 34; may use as a lever the belief in man's communion with
spirits, 69; and magic, 102, 103, 104; and fetichism, 105; and heathen
prayer, 138, 173.
Momentary gods, 128, 136.
Morality, 81, 83, 84, 95, 211 ff., 260, 261; and communion with God,
62; and the mysteries, 191; and prayer, 148.
Moral transgression, and sin, 221.
Mosquito-totem, 166.
Mura-muras, 162.
Mysteries, the Greek, 58, 62; and prayer, 180.
Names, and gods, 121.
Names, of gods, 121, 131, 132; of men, 132; and personality, 133.
Nassau, Dr., 116, 168, 170.
Natchez Indians, 194.
Natural law, 72.
Nature, uniformity of, 14, 15.
Nefarious magic, 83-87, 95.
Neilgherry Hills, 194.
New Caledonia, 92, 153, 154, 155, 156, 162.
New Hebrides, 181.
New South Wales, 162.
Nias, 181.
Niger, 181.
Nirvana, 247.
North American Indians, 111.
Nyankupon, 169.
Offerings, 178; and their object, 180; made to fetiches, 112, 122.
Old Testament, 54.
Ol-kora, 154, 162.
Onitsha, 181.
Order of value, 7; distinct from chronological order, 7, 9, 15, 16;
historic, 8.
Origin, and validity, 38, 39.
Osages, 143.
Parker, Mrs. L., 162 ff., 191.
Perception, 9.
Personality, of magician, 87; of gods and fetiches, 130, 131, 132; of
God, 258; and proper names, 133.
Personification, 136.
Peru, 193, 194, 198.
Pestilence, 205.
Pinkerton, 109.
Plato, 206, 207, 209.
Political economy, 5, 6.
Political philosophy, 241.
Polytheism and fetichism, 128, 130, 131, 132, 133.
Pondos, 194.
Power, personal, 87, 88, 100.
Prayer, 92, 93, 94, 138 ff.; among the heathen, 138; to fetiches, 127;
and desire, 142; and personal advantage, 144; and the community, 146;
of individuals, 147; unethical, 148, 149; and magic, 154; and spells,
155, 157, 160; and famine, 158; for rain, 160; the expression of the
heart's desire, 160; never unknown to man, 160, 161; in exceptional
distress, 182; of thanksgiving, 182; occasional and recurring, 179 ff.;
and communion, 180; its purpose, 175; and external rites, 176; implies
sacrifice, 176; not always reported by observers, 177; and sacrifice go
together, 169; no worship without, 170; of Socrates, 171; and
sacrifice, 172; Our Lord's, 172, 173; practical, 167; the root of
religion, 167, 168; and its objects, 163; a mother's prayer, 163;
"singing," 164; and charms, 150, 165; at seed time, 205.
Prayer-mill, 150.
Priests, 91, 193; and gods, 121; and fetiches, 122.
Primitive man, believes in immortality, 37.
Private property, 5, 6.
Progress, 9, 246, 256, 257, 263; and evolution, 24.
Protective colouring, 70, 103.
Psalmist, 54.
Puluga, 169.
Pure science of religion, is a historic science, 2; its facts may be
used for different and contradictory purposes, 4.
Rain, prayed for, 146, 160, 161.
Rain-clouds, 154, 156, 161, 162.
Rain-god, 91, 92.
Rain-making, 84, 87, 88, 91, 161, 164.
Rebirth, 48, 49, 50.
Regress, 246, 257.
Reincarnation, 59; in animal form, 50, 51, 52; in new-born children,
48-50; in namesakes, 50; its relation to morality and religion, 61.
Religion, is a fact, 5; never unknown to man, 160, 161; essentially
practical, 160, 175; its evolution, 239; as a survival of barbarism,
24; lowest forms to be studied first, 26, 27; is a yearning after and
search for God, 28, 115, 136; a bond of community from the first, 43,
59, 176; implies gods and their worship, 121, 122, 177, 217; implies
rites and prayers, 176; "under the guise of desire," 44, 115, 149, 158,
166, 173; but it is the desire of the community, 44; and morality, 37,
81, 83, 84, 211, 215; and animism, 136; and fetichism, 106-109, 115,
131, 132, 136; and magic, 70, 71, 72, 92-95, 96, 97, 98, 101, 150, 151,
152, 154; mechanical, 150; applied science of, 105; and its value, 109.
Religious values, 9, 16.
Resemblances, not more important than differences, for the method of
comparison, 22; their value, 23, 24.
Resentment and justice, 224.
Responsibility, collective, 227, 228, 234.
Revelation, 172, 255; and evolution, 173.
Revenge and justice, 229.
Rheumatism, 76.
Rhys Davids, 64.
Saa, 180.
Sacrament, in Central Australia, 197, 200.
Sacramental meals, 183 ff., 197, 199, 200, 201, 203.
Sacrifice, 92, 93, 94, 175 ff.; to fetiches, 113; and worship, 137,
177; and prayer, 172, 177; and the gift theory, 206; and communion,
207, 208; its ultimate form, 209, 210; and the etymology of "god," 133
ff., 137.
Saffron, 89.
Science, has truth, not assignment of value, for its object, 10, 11,
108; and history, 108; does not deal with ends, 255; and evolution,
257; and magic, 70, 71, 72, 101; of the savage, 159, 189.
Science of religion, 256; pure and applied, 2 ff.; supposed to be
incompatible with religious belief, 4; really has nothing to do with
the truth or value of religion, 5, 10; and prayer, 140, 141; and the
missionary, 105.
Sea Dyaks, 228.
Search for God, the, 28, 29, 30, 34, 35, 252, 258, 262.
Seed time, 188, 205.
Self-realising spirit, 213, 214.
Seminole Indians, 194.
Shakespeare, 16, 17.
Sheol, 54, 58.
Similarity, between higher and lower forms of religion, 27; the basis
for the missionary's work, 28.
"Singing," 164, 165.
Slavery, 241, 243.
"Smelling out," 84.
Social purpose, and magic, 91.
Society, a means, 253; as an end, 261; perfection of, 254, 261; and the
family, 98.
Society Islands, 181.
Solidarity, 212, 213, 251; religious, 220.
Solomon Islands, 180.
Soul, the, 37; separable from the body, 37; its continued existence, 38.
Spells, and prayers, 150, 151, 152, 153, 155, 157, 160, 164.
Spencer and Gillen, 45, 46, 164, 197.
Spinning, 78, 79.
Spirits, 162, 170; not essential to magic, 89, 90, 91; and fetiches,
118, 119; of fetichism and gods of polytheism, 128; guardian, 111;
"momentary," and gods, 135; and prayer, 166; and morality, 215, 217,
219; not worshipped, 216.
Spring customs, 192, 198, 203.
Squirrel, 76, 78.
State, the, and justice, 224.
St. John, Mr., 228.
Stones, 92, 93, 94.
Struggle for existence, 264.
_Suhman_, 122, 123, 126, 136.
Sun, 153, 157.
Superstition, 150.
Sympathetic magic, 80, 85, 93, 153, 157, 162.
Taboo, 186 ff., 222, 229, 231-234, 250.
Talents, 253.
Tana, 181.
Tanner, John, 143.
Tari, 181, 183.
Taro, 92, 93, 94.
Temples, 178.
Test, of perfection in society, 255.
Thanks, do not need words, 181, 185.
Thank-offerings, 181.
Thomsen, Professor, 134.
Tibetan Buddhists, 150.
Tiger, 74, 89.
Tjumba, 181.
Tonga, 181.
Totems, 51, 165, 166, 197, 203; eating of, 186.
Trade wind, 101.
Transmigration, 51, 61, 119, 120; of character, 64.
Truth, 25; and value, 10.
Tupinambas, 56, 58.
Tylor, Professor, 37, 47, 56, 112, 141-144, 147, 148, 150, 161, 166.
Unalits, 59, 60.
Uncle John, knows his own pipe, 49, 50.
Uniformity of nature, 14; matter of faith, not of knowledge, 15.
Unselfishness, developes and does not weaken individuality, 67.
Usener, Professor, 128, 131, 133.
Utilitarianism, 240, 242.
Value, 7; literary and artistic, 8, 9; religious, 8, 9, 10, 107, 108,
109; carries a reference to the future, 12; relative to a purpose or
end, 13, 15; of literature and art, felt, not proved, 16, 17; of
fetichism, 114, 115, 120; of fetichism and religion for society, 125;
religious, and fetichism, 127.
Virgil, 54.
West Africa, 152, 153.
Westermarck, E., 224, 225, 228, 235.
Whistling, to produce a wind, 73, 74, 75.
Will, the, 13.
Will to injure, 81.
Will to live, the, 41; involves the desire for immortality, 41;
denounced by Buddhism, 66.
Wind, 100, 101.
Wisdom, collective, of man, 237.
Witch, and witch-doctor, 84.
Witchcraft, 222, 227.
Wives, of hunters and warriors, 78.
Wohkonda, 143.
Worship, 121, 122, 177, 180, 260; and the etymology of "god," 133 ff.,
137; of gods and of fetiches, 123, 134, 135; of the community, given to
the powers that protect it, 126; may break up, 170.
Xenophon, 171.
Xilonen, 190.
Yams, 93, 143, 180, 181.
Yebu, 147.
Zulus, 194.
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