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.,162ff.,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,92,93,94,138ff.; 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,179ff.; 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,183ff.,197,199,200,201,203.
Sacrifice,92,93,94,175ff.; 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,"133ff.,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,2ff.; 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.