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Updated: June 23, 2025
The next difference between fetichism and polytheism, according to Höffding, is that the gods of polytheism have developed that personality which is not indeed absolutely wanting in the spirits of fetichism but can hardly be said to be properly there.
If we turn to things, such as rain-making, which are socially beneficial, we find a similar growth in the belief that some men have extraordinary power to work wonders on behalf of the tribe. A further stage of development is reached when the man who uses his personal power for nefarious purposes undertakes by means of it to control spirits: magic then tends to pass into fetichism.
Temple worship is in itself an ancient type of the religious sentiment in its progress towards spiritual elevation. As soon as a nation emerged, in the world's progress, out of Fetichism, or the worship of visible objects, the most degraded form of idolatry, its people began to establish a priesthood and to erect temples.
He should be able to feel confidence, for instance, not merely that magic and fetichism are the negation of religion, but that in teaching that fact he has to support him the evidence collected by the science of religion; and he should have that evidence placed at his disposal for effective use, if need be.
Religion, or rather the fetichism of these ignorant creatures, absolved such murders of remorse. Thus, when the struggle had once begun, every part of the country was dangerous, in fact, all things were full of peril, sound as well as silence, attraction as well as fear, the family hearth or the open country. Treachery was everywhere, but it was treachery from conviction.
But a fetichism, while it tends to occur in sensitive, nervous, timid, precocious individuals that is to say, individuals of more or less neuropathic heredity can usually, though not always, be traced to a definite starting point in the shock of some sexually emotional episode in early life.
Max Muller's reasons for denying that fetichism is 'a primitive form of religion. The negative side of his argument being thus disposed of, it will then be our business to consider his psychological theory of the subjective element in religion, and his account of the growth of Indian religion. The conclusion of the essay will be concerned with demonstrating that Mr.
Muller's own evidence is that much-disputed work, where 'all men see what they want to see, as in the clouds, and where many see systematised fetichism the Veda. The first step in Mr. Max Muller's polemic was the assertion that Fetichism is nowhere unmixed. We have seen that the fact is capable of an interpretation that will suit either side. Stages of culture overlap each other.
Where the popular Christian idea has presented a low view of some system, scarcely rising above the grade of fetichism, the apologists have triumphantly displayed a profound philosophy.
As religions become developed they are differentiated; it only fetichism that you find the same everywhere.
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