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The Classification of Religions

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ethnographic classification of religions

  • Charles Sprague Pearce: Religion
    In classification of religions: Ethnographic-linguistic

    Ward, for example, in The Classification of Religions (1909) accepted the premise of the connection between race and religion but appealed to a much more detailed scheme of ethnological relationship. He says that “religion gets its character from the people or race who develop or adopt it” and further…

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