PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION: A STUDY IN ETHNOPHILOSOPHY -- 1. PRIMITIVITY, CULTURE AND RELIGION -- 1. Primitivity and the Study of Religion -- 1.1 The Problem of a Protoculture -- 1.2 Criteria of Primitivity -- 1.3 Culture and Reflection -- 2. Historical Sketch of the Study on Primitive Religion(s) -- 2.1 Nature Mythology and Pan-Babylonism -- 2.2 Early Ethnological Theories Concerning the Origin of Religion -- 2.3 Manism, Animism, Preanimism: The Classical Theories -- 2.4 Social-anthropological and Psychological Approaches to Religion -- 2.5 Phenomenology of Religion -- 2. GEOGRAPHICAL SURVEY AND DESCRIPTION OF PRIMITIVE CULTURES AND THEIR RELIGION -- 1. The Typology of Primitive Cultures -- 2. Toward a Definition of Religion -- 3. Religion in African Cultures -- 4. Religions of Asian Primitives -- 4.1 The Indian Subcontinent -- 4.2 Southeast Asia -- 4.3 Inner Asia -- 4.4 Northern Siberia -- 5. Religions of Oceania and Australia -- 5.1 Oceania -- 5.2 Australia -- 6. Religion in North and South American Cultures -- 6.1 North America -- 6.2 South America -- 7. Bibliographical Appendix -- 3. CONSTITUTIVE ANALYSIS: A METHODOLOGICAL INTERLUDE -- 1. The Symbolic Implication of Homo Existens -- 2. The Religious Implication of Homo Symbolicus -- 3. Symbols of Religion -- 4. Religion and Magic -- 5. Conclusion -- 4. THE RELIGION OF THE AFRICAN PYGMIES -- 1. The Forest World of the Bambuti Pygmies -- 2. Bambuti Anthropology -- 3. Idea and Function of Megbe-Totemism -- 4. Bambuti Mythology -- 4.1 The Mythic Beginning -- 4.2 The Culture Hero and Bringer of Blessings -- 4.3 The Mythic A-mythic Origin -- 5. Bambuti Cult -- 5.1 The Bambuti Cult as Recalled Mythology -- 5.2 The Bambuti Cult as Mythic Reactualization -- 5.3 The Magic of the Bambuti -- 6. Religion and the Social Order -- 5. THE RELIGION OF THE ARTIC HUNTERS: THE ESKIMOS.

1. Life and Religion Among the Eskimos -- 2. Bladder Feast and Fall Ceremonial -- 3. Shamanism -- 4. Eskimo Mythology -- 6. THREE FACETS OF PRIMITIVE RELIGIONS -- 1. The Two Worlds of the Asian Negritos -- 1.1 General Traits of the Religion of the Negritos -- 1.2 The Mythology of the Semang Negritos -- 1.3 Blood Sacrifice and Pano Ritual -- 2. The Totemic Religion of Australia -- 2.1 The Totemic Myth -- 2.2 The Totemistic Culture -- 2.3 The Totemistic Cult -- 3. Religion in the Dissolving Culture of the Kaingang (Brazil) -- 3.1 Religious Ideas of the Gé-speaking People -- 3.2 General Traits of Kaingang Religion -- 3.3 Between Self-love and Doom -- 7. PATTERNS OF PRIMITIVE RELIGION -- 1. The Differential Universality of Primitive Religion -- 1.1 The Culture Hero -- 1.2 Prayer and Taboo -- 1.3 Divine Being -- 1.4 Primitive Religion and Religious Phenomena -- 2. The Theogonic Significance of Primitive Religion -- 2.1 Functional Truth and the Interpretation of Myth -- 2.2 Myth and Meaning -- 2.3 Mythicity, Consciousness and Religion -- 2.4 Unio Mythica -- 3. The Theistic Outlook of Primitive Religion -- 3.1 The Divine Person -- 3.2 The Dialectics of Divine Presence -- 3.3 The God of Primitive Religion -- 4. Primitive Religion and Anthropogenesis -- 4.1 Survival and Religion -- 4.2 Conscience, Adulthood and Priestly Existence -- 4.3 Mythicity and Thinking -- 5. Cultural Perception and the Dynamics of Primitive Religion -- 8. PRIMITIVE RELIGION AND MODERN MAN -- 1. Reassessment of the Studies on Primitive Religion(s) -- 2. Primitive Religion and the History of Religions -- 3. Primitive Religion and Philosophy -- 4. Primitive Religion and the End of the Western World -- REFERENCES -- INDEX OF AUTHORS -- INDEX OF SUBJECTS.