A number of Frazer’s theories have been overturned by modern science, but his works contain a great deal of factual information. James George Frazer Food and Culture, Recipes Add comments. Frazer incorrectly juxtaposed magic to religion and drew a parallel between magic and science as methods of acting upon nature and derived ideologies from individual psychology (associative thought). James George Frazer Sir Books Folk-lore in the Old Testament studies in comparative religion, legend and law The golden bough a study in magic and religion. According to Frazer, human consciousness evolved from the domination of magic concepts in the age of magic to the personification of supernatural forces in the age of religion and finally to the age of science. He demonstrated the genetic link between these primitive beliefs and the religions of class-structured societies, such as Judaism and Christianity (particularly as illustrated through the cult of the “resurrected god”). Using the comparative historical method, Frazer systematized an enormous mass of material about primitive beliefs, totemism, animism, and taboo. British anthropologist and historian of religion professor (Cambridge University, from 1921). The Golden Bough, perhaps the most famous work in anthropology, began appearing in 1890. 1, 1854, in Glasgow died May 7, 1941, in Cambridge.
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