OF THE FOUNDİNG PATHERS OF THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF RELİGİON: JAMES GEORGE FRAZER (1854- 1941)
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Amongst the last leading Victorian evolutionists was James George Frazer, a student of
Tylor who was celebrated, far beyand anthropologlcal drcles, for his masterpiece works for
example, his Golden Bough, which was first publlshed as a two-volume set in 1890, and
later expanded to fill twelve glgantic tomes. _As explained ın this article, his researches are
consldered a vast, comparative investigatlons on the history of myth, religion, folklore and
other 'exotic beliefs', with examples drawn from all ·over the world. Uke so many of the
evolutionists, Frazer believed in a three-step model of cultural evolution: a 'magical' stage
is replaced by a 'religious' stage, which gives way to a 'scientific' stage. Though Frazer
clearly considered magical rites lrrational, and assumed that 'primitives' based thelr lives on
a completely mlstaken understandlng of nature, his main concern was to ldentify patterns
and universal traits in mythical thought.
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