# A Comparative View of Religions

Author: Scholten, Johannes Henricus, 1811-1885; Washburn, Francis T. (Francis Tucker), 1843-1873 [Translator]

Genre: Islam

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20137

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## Summary

The lowest stage of religious development is fetichism, as it is found among the savage tribes of the polar regions, and in Africa, America, and Australia. In this stage, man's needs are as yet very limited and exclusively confined to the material world. Still too little developed intellectually to worship the divine in nature and her powers, he thinks he sees the divinity which he seeks in every unknown object which strikes his senses, or which his imagination calls up. In this stage, religion has no higher character than that of caprice and of love of the mysterious and marvelous, mixed with fear and a slavish adoration of the divine. The worship and the priest's office (Shaman, Shamani...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-comparative-view-of-religions-20137/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-comparative-view-of-religions-20137/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-comparative-view-of-religions-20137/chapters/1/index.md)