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Revisiting William Robertson Smith and His Evolutionary Theory of Religion

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Legitimizing Religion: The Appeal to Archaism

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Lucien Levy-Bruhl on ‘Primitive’ and ‘Civilized’ Mentality

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Robert Bellah’s Five Stages of the Evolution of Religion

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A Privileged Place? Christianity in the Development of Religion Studies

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Auguste Comte: Religion and the Evolution of Human Consciousness

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E. B. Tylor – ‘Primitive’ Animism as the Origin of Religion

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Raffaele Pettazzoni – Monotheism as a Revolution from Within Polytheistic Frameworks

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James Frazer – Evolutionary Development of Man’s Religious Psyche

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