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,105ff.,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,52ff.
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, andgiessen,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,180ff.
Harvest communion,188,189.
Harvest customs,192,198,203.
Harvest supper,195ff.,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.
Höffding, 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.,143ff.
Homer,16,17.
Homœopathic 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,34ff.
Incorporation,178.
Individual, and the community,218,239; cannot exist save in society,225; both a means and an end for society,240ff.,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,223,224ff.
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'Année 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,32,70ff.; 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 homœopathic,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,92ff.; 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.SeeAppendix.
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.
Mâyâ,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,81,83,84,95,211ff.,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.