The Encyclopedia Americana, Volume 19Grolier, 1988 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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Page 228
... culture should be transmitted along with religion . Sometimes missions have seen their task as the total trans- planting of a culture , religious and secular ele- ments being equally necessary . The provision of a wide range of social ...
... culture should be transmitted along with religion . Sometimes missions have seen their task as the total trans- planting of a culture , religious and secular ele- ments being equally necessary . The provision of a wide range of social ...
Page 701
... culture heroes in their desire to benefit all men , but the benefit is spiritual salvation rather than material aid . Unlike culture heroes , they are not socially peripheral , semidivine figures but historical be- ings who embody and ...
... culture heroes in their desire to benefit all men , but the benefit is spiritual salvation rather than material aid . Unlike culture heroes , they are not socially peripheral , semidivine figures but historical be- ings who embody and ...
Page 705
... culture and its continuing impact in history . Throughout the Enlightenment , European scholars produced many speculative theories of mythology and its cultural significance . They expanded the category of myth beyond the pagan myths of ...
... culture and its continuing impact in history . Throughout the Enlightenment , European scholars produced many speculative theories of mythology and its cultural significance . They expanded the category of myth beyond the pagan myths of ...
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