From Spell to Prayer
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8930973 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R R Marett (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1904 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 132-165 |
| Publication date | 1904-06-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Folklore (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0015-587X • E-ISSN: 1469-8315 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0015587x.1904.9719396 |
| OpenAlex | W2319807285 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
THIS paper represents the fruit of some rather perfunctory, if only because interrupted, meditation on the broader and, so to speak, more philosophic features of the contrast drawn between magic and religion by Dr. Frazer in the second edition of his Golden Bough.Meanwhile, it is more imme diately written round the subject of the relation of incan tation to invocation, the spell to the prayer.I confess to having reached my conclusions by ways that are largely 0 priori.By this I do not mean, of course, that I have excogitated them out of my inner consciousness, as the Teutonic professor in the story is said to have excogitated the camel, I simply mean that the preliminary induction on which my hypothesis is based consists partly in con siderations pertaining to the universal psychology of man, and partly in general impressions derived from a limited amount of discursive reading about savages.The verifica tion of my theory, on the other hand, by means of a detailed comparison of its results with the relevant evidence is a task beyond my present means.As for my illustrations, these have been hastily gathered from a few standard books and papers, and most of all, I think, from that house of heapedup treasure, the Golden Dough itself.In these circum stances my sole excuse for challenging the views of an authority whose knowledge and command of anthropological fact is truly vast, must be that in the present inchoate state of the science there can be no closed questions, nor even any reserved ones-no mysteries over which expert may claim the right to take counsel with expert, secure from the Downloaded by [University of California Santa Barbara] at 23:40
Art · Prayer · Spell · Theology · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · History · Philosophy · Religious studies
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 1967 - 2020 (54) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |