 It conceives of man as passing through life surrounded by a ghostly company of powers, elements, tendencies, mostly impersonal in their character, shapeless phantasms of which no image can be made and no definite idea can be formed. Some of these have...  A History of Missions in India - Page 241by Julius Richter - 1908 - 469 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Sutherland Cotton, Sir Richard Burn, Sir William Stevenson Meyer - Great Britain - 1909 - 608 pages
...life and will like his own. The leading features of Animism, as summarized by Mr. Risley, are : ' It conceives of man as passing through life surrounded...over cholera, another over small-pox, another over cattle disease ; some dwell in rocks, others haunt trees, others, again, are associated with rivers,... | |
 | Alfred Shenington Geden - Religions - 1917 - 152 pages
...1901, which though they have been quoted more than once may well be repeated here : " It (ie, animism) conceives of man as passing through life surrounded...over cholera, another over smallpox, another over cattle disease j some dwell in rocks, others haunt trees, others again are associated with rivers,... | |
 | Biswamoy Pati - Odisha (India) - 2001 - 210 pages
...[Calcutta, 1903], 356) which refers to "the leading features of animism" in the following way: "It conceives of man as passing through life surrounded...powers, elements, tendencies mostly impersonal in character, shapeless phantasms of which no image can be formed. Some of these have departments or spheres... | |
 | 2017 - 162 pages
...HH Risley's definition of Hinduism as it exists in India. " It conceives of man," he says, " as A. 6 passing through life surrounded by a ghostly company...over cholera, another over small-pox, another over cattle disease ; some dwell in rocks, others haunt trees, others, again, • are associated with rivers,... | |
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