The Idea of God in Early Religions,by F. B.
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This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost norestrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under theterms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or onlineat www.gutenberg.orgTitle: The Idea of God in Early ReligionsAuthor: F. B. JevonsRelease Date: May 5, 2008 [eBook #25338]Language: EnglishCharacter set encoding: ISO-8859-1***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE IDEA OFGOD IN EARLY RELIGIONS***E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Jeannie Howse, and the ProjectGutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net)THE IDEA OF GOD IN EARLY RELIGIONSbyF. B. JEVONS, LITT.D.Professor of Philosophy in the University of DurhamCambridge: at the University Press 1913First Edition, 1910 Reprinted 1911, 1913
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PREFACEIn
The Varieties of Religious Experience
the late Professor William Jameshas said (p. 465): 'The religious phenomenon, studied as an inner fact, andapart from ecclesiastical or theological complications, has shown itself toconsist everywhere, and at all its stages, in the consciousness whichindividuals have of an intercourse between themselves and higher powerswith which they feel themselves to be related. This intercourse is realised atthe time as being both active and mutual.' The book now before the readerdeals with the religious phenomenon, studied as an inner fact, in the earlierstages of religion. By 'the Idea of God' may be meant either theconsciousness which individuals have of higher powers, with which theyfeel themselves to be related, or the words in which they, or others, seek toexpress that consciousness. Those words may be an expression, that is tosay an interpretation or a misinterpretation, of that consciousness. But thewords are not the consciousness: the feeling, without which theconsciousness does not exist, may be absent when the words are spoken orheard. It is however through the words that we have to approach the feelingand the consciousness of others, and to determine whether and how far thefeeling and the consciousness so approached are similar in all individualseverywhere and at all stages.F. B. JEVONS.HATFIELD HALL, DURHAM.
October, 1910
CONTENTSPAGEBIBLIOGRAPHY ixI. INTRODUCTION 1
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