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History Religions: With very few exceptions, the idea of the » constitutes one of the most pervasive religi< conceptions. Some commentators claim that it the most important single defining characteris of religion.
Salvation.—One way of describing religions to say that they exist for the purpose of salvati Salvation in this sense is the goal of all religic endeavor and the ultimate motivation for all ligious practice. An analysis of the history religions indicates that people have struggled be saved either for something or from somethii Among primitive savages the terror of the l known in the physical world leads to all sorts nonrational attempts to ward off evil.
History. The history of spices can be traced most to the birth of civilization. Through the ;es herbs and spices have been used both to eserve food and to enhance its flavor, but in rliest times they were used not so much for asoning of foods as for religious purposes, for sense and embalming, and for sacrificial and neral rites. Spices accompanied acts of worship id honor not only in the religions of antiquity it in the Jewish and Christian faiths as well. ;rbs and spices were in great demand as sdicines, perfumes, and charms. Depending on e plants from which they were derived, they ;re thought to cure dog or serpent bites, to m aside the evil eye, or to ensure fidelity in airs of the heart.
RETRIBUTION, in anthropology, a tl expressing the belief in states of happine; of misery in another world, allotted to according to their deserts while living on e Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (q.v.), in his P, five Culture (1871), does not find this existing universally in the religions of the range of culture that have not been affecte contact with higher religions. The most pi tive view of the life beyond the grave wai thought, that it is simply a continuation oi present.
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