Day: April 9, 2020

The evolutionary school of thought believe that religion evolved from simplistic basic monotheism to complex Unlimited polytheism through various stages like Exclusive Monotheism, Pluriform Monotheism, Religious Dualism, Polytheism, Henotheism. Monotheism is a belief in the existence of one god, or in the oneness of God while Polytheism is the belief in the existence of many […]

Emile Durkheim A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things (things set apart and forbidden) which unite into one single moral community called the church, all those who adhere to them. He emphasized three aspects of religion. I. The Sacred Aspect Religion according to Durkheim includes the Sacred Phenomena […]

John Lubbock, made an  attempt to combine archaeological evidence of prehistoric people, on the one hand, and anthropological evidence of primitive people, on the other, to trace the origin and evolution of religion. In this scheme, development of fetishism, followed by nature worship, and totemism (a system of belief involving the relationship of specific animals […]

As per Max Muller, naturism is the earliest form of religion. It may comprise a large number of ideas which are sharply opposed to “science,” and which may be in themselves mythological, or poetical, or even mystical. The earliest people had an attitude of awe or love and reverence towards the different objects of the […]