He lived 1823 to 1892 and studied Judaism and Christianity.
He lived 1823 to 1900. Religion began as nature worship and personified natural forces. As Hindu, Greek, and Roman Aryan languages changed, storytelling {mythology, Muller} began.
He lived 1846 to 1894. Tribe kinship groups had sacred totem animals. Marriages were between groups.
He lived 1869 to 1937. People can have experience of the holy, which is wholly other, beautiful, powerful, and mysterious.
He lived 1907 to 1986, studied folk religion {archaic religion}, and compared religious behavior, symbols, and feelings.
Religion is about the sacred. The sacred has unity and is living, sexual or energetic, redemptive or regenerative, clean, and permanent. The sky, sun, moon, water, stones, Earth, trees, ancestors, heroes, and gods can be sacred. The sacred is powerful, awesome, beautiful, and mysterious.
People intuit the sacred and want to be part of it or return to it. People have religious feelings about the sacred and religious experiences of transcendence. Performing sacraments affects person's beliefs and feelings. Religions use symbols, symbol systems, and myths to refer to the sacred.
People want to end history and start over {eternal return myth} {myth of eternal return}, so life will have meaning. Judaic prophets proclaimed that life was trials, punishments, and blessings from God and so was meaningful.
Modern society removes the sacred from history and nature.
He lived 1904 to 1987.
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