Note 159 — LECTURE IV. Primitive Religious Expression: In the Object.
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The insufficiency of animism as a theory of primitive religions has been previously urged by Van Ende, Histoire Naturelle de la Croyance, p. 21. Like fetishism and shamanism, animism should be regarded, not as a form or stadium of religion, but, to use Castren’s excellent expression, “nur ein Moment in der Götterlehre.” Finnische Mythologie, Einleitung.