This book provides a systematic and logical approach to the origins of religion. Many common themes are shown to exist between Christianity and earlier Pagan religions that go back in time centuries before Christianity itself. Carpenter makes an effort to get to the very roots of religion in this book. Hes trying to uncover where our religious concepts first originated, and reveals an evolutionary sequence which starts with phallic and procreative cults as having the earliest known impact. Following this came a cult of magic, much along the lines of Fraziers The Golden Bough, where spirits...
This book provides a systematic and logical approach to the origins of religion. Many common themes are shown to exist between Christianity and earlie...
Preface; A Visit to Walt Whitman in 1877; Walt Whitman in 1884; Notes and Appreciation; Whitman as a Prophet; Appendix to Whitman as Prophet; The Poetic form of "Leaves of Grass"; Walt Whitman's Children; Whitman and Emerson.
Preface; A Visit to Walt Whitman in 1877; Walt Whitman in 1884; Notes and Appreciation; Whitman as a Prophet; Appendix to Whitman as Prophet; The Poet...
