Urreligion
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Urreligion is a postulated "original" or "oldest" form of
world religions
.
The term Urreligion originated in the context of German Romanticism.
History
Eckermann on 11 March 1832, discussed the human Urreligion, which he characterized as "pure nature and [pure] reason, of divine origin".[3]
The final scene of his Faust Part Two (1832) has been taken as evoking "the 'Urreligion' of mankind".[4]
Often used in the sense of
Hindu Puranas
).
In particular,
monotheistic. Some have rejected this hypothesis,[6] and certain Christian apologetics circles defend it.[7]
Nineteenth-century
new religious movements that claim to restore primeval religion include Godianism[9] and Umbanda.[10]
See also
- Ancient Semitic religion
- Paleolithic religion
- Perennial philosophy
- Prehistoric religion
- Proto-religion (disambiguation)
- Proto-Indo-European religion
- Evolutionary origin of religions
- Traditionalist school
- UR Group
- Tradition (perennialism)
References
- ^ In his Mutterrecht und Urreligion , Bachofen connects primeval religion and matriarchy.
- ^ Symbolik und Mythologie der alten Völker, besonders der Griechen. In Vorträgen und Entwürfen. Leipzig and Darmstadt, Heyer und Leske, 1810–1812.
- ^ Gespräche
- ^ O. Durrani, "Biblical Borrowings in Goethe's 'Faust': A Historical Survey of Their Interpretation", The Modern Language Review 1977
- ^ Dayton, Leigh (2 November 1996). "Flood gave birth to world's oldest religion". Retrieved 15 August 2020.
- ISBN 1-85075-657-0.
- ^ Pajak, Sylwester, Urreligion und Uroffenbarung bei P. W. Schmidt, St. Augustin 1978.
- ^ J. L. Studach, Die Urreligion oder das entdeckte Uralphabet, 1856
- ISBN 0914970313.
- ^ Gerhard Muller, Theologische Realenzyklopädie, de Gruyter (2003), p. 265
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