A brilliant work about animism and its connection to various fields of religion.

This ebook is not a cheap scanned version of the original but has been completely revised, including an interactive table-of-contents.

CONTENTS:

1. Pre-Human Elements In Religion

2. Brain In Animal And Man

3. Man In The Making

4. Animal And Human Psychology

5. Naturalism; Or Conception Of Power Everywhere

6. Animism; Or Conception Of Spirit Everywhere

7. Theories Of The Nature Of Spirit

8. Spirits In Inanimate Things

9. Fear - A Constant Element In Animism

10. Absence Of Sequence In The Objects Of Worship

11. Absentee Gods

12. Maleficent Spritis

13. Evolution Of Idea Of Benevolent Gods - Earth Mother

14. Tree And Animal Worship

15. Stone Worship

16. Water Worship

17 Deification And Worship Of Ancestors