RT Article
T1 An Assessment of the Early Theories of Religion by Edward B. Tylor, James G. Frazer, Sigmund Freud and Their Nexus with Cognitive Theorizing
JF Journal of religion and human relations
VO 12
IS 1
SP 48
OP 66
A1 Abalogu, Divine M.
A1 Okolo, Ekenedilichukwu A.
LA English
PB Department of Religion and Human Relations, Nnamdi Azikiwe Univ.
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1741577047
AB From the world on go, man has been asking questions on the origin and formation of religion. These questions are as a result of the quest in man to understand his object of worship, the Supreme Being or the ultimate reality. Hence it has been ascertained that man is homo-religiosus and as such is religiously incurable. It has also been established that people have faith because beliefs make sense in so far as they hold value and are comprehensible. This is also evidenced in the level and quest for people’s religiosity in the present dispensation. Religion as it is practiced today developed from theories which are posited by scholars in trying to give their explanations to it. Among those scholars are Edward BurnettTylor, James George Frazer and Sigmund Freud who made their points from both substantive theory which is focusing on the value of religion for its adherent and functional perspectives which is more interested with what religion does. Their theories were not without some influence from their intellectual backgrounds. It is germane to posit that in trying a work of this nature, the paper makes use of library and internet sources in its research. The paper therefore finds that religion is an aspect of life that is very important to human life, hence the quest for every scholar to makea contribution to it. It concludes that faith and believes arise from the normal function of the human mind of which the human minds acquire, generate, and transmit religious thoughts, practices, and schemas by means of ordinary cognitive capacities.
K1 Edward B. Tylor
K1 James G. Frazer
K1 Assessment
K1 Cognitive Theorizing
K1 Religion
K1 Sigmund Freud Nexus
K1 Theories