But now comes a statement that may seem paradoxical to most students of the evolution of religious ideas.
Absurdities of this kind are often associated with religious ideas, although the latter generally play a secondary part.
Religious ideas on the future of man after death are often combined with these ideas; this is why chastity, death, or even all kinds of torture are, in certain countries, imposed on the woman after death of the husband.
Or again, by exercising a right derived from old traditions based on religious ideas, he plays the part of proxy for the Deity and judges in His place.
Religious Ideas of the Arunta'; in Folk-Lore, vol.
By this word I understand belonging to the category of magico-religious ideas.
To the organ De Dageraad he contributed important works, such as Jewish Reports Concerning Jesus of Nazareth and the Origin of Religious Ideas, the last of which has been published separately.
Her principal work is The Progress of Religious Ideas, 3 vols.
We learn how to value order, good government, and civilization founded on religious ideas, as the most precious of all earthly possessions after the faith and the means of eternal salvation.
And in regard to this organic law, I affirm that we do not form an exception among human societies to the universal rule I have above laid down, that the state in political society is based on religious ideas.
We have recognised the heterogeneous character of the collection, and it is only to be expected that this should be reflected in the variety of religious ideas.
Nevertheless, amidst their abasement and their misery, they were still able to place their hope in the ascendancy of religious ideas, and in the wish for civilization, which acted as a tie between all Christian societies.
Religious ideas, Guizot declares, had experienced no change, but power had changed hands no less than property.
Fox (see his Religious Ideas, 1849,) are illustrations of the new spirit.
Even in Herder the comparison is æsthetical more than scientific, and relates to the comparison of literatures more than of religious ideas.
Nobody can deny that these are religious ideas, though they do not appeal in Mr. Frazer's definition.
Footnote 205: "There was always a double current of religious ideas in Greece; one spiritualist, the other tainted with impure legends.
This theory is utterly inadequate to the explanation of the universality of religious rites, and especially of religious ideas.
Such passages, in fact, cannot safely be used as evidence of religious ideas, apart from the tendencies of the age in which they were written.
Persons who have passed their childhood without any communication with other human beings, owing to some corporal defect, display no signs of the possession of religious ideas.
But Mohammedanism was an embodiment of religious ideas.
A government controlled by property interests approved itself as well as one directed by religious ideas.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "religious ideas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
