ORIGIONS OF RELIGION

The Different Theories on the religion and the major proponents

of these theories

Animistic Theory

Proponent
Edward Burnett Tylor (1832-1917), English anthropologist.

Primitive people believed in

souls or anima found in people
(seen in dreams).
ORIGIONS OF RELIGION
The Different Theories on the religion and the major proponents
of these theories

Nature- Worship Theory

Human beings first

developed their religions
from their observations
of the forces of nature.
ORIGIONS OF RELIGION
The Different Theories on the religion and the major proponents
of these theories

Nature- Worship Theory

Primitive people identified the

forces in nature, personified
them, created myths, and
developed religions around
them.
ORIGIONS OF RELIGION
The Different Theories on the religion and the major proponents
of these theories

Theory of Original Monotheism

Proponent
Wilhelm Schmidt (1868-1954), Austrian anthropologist and
ethnologist.

There had been one great

God above all others.
ORIGIONS OF RELIGION
The Different Theories on the religion and the major proponents
of these theories

Magic Theory
Proponent
James George Frazer (1854-1941), Scottish social
anthropologist.

People had gone three phases

of development concerning
the spirit world: