Chidester, D (2002) Patterns of Transcendence: Religion, Death and Dying Wadsworth: Thomson Learning.

 

‘The earliest records for the history of religions are bones.’ Religious belief because 1. red ochre (blood and life) 2. placement of objects (for use in next life) and 3. big effort in burial. (p.1) John ‘Lubbock argued that dreams were the basis of belief in another life’ (p.2). Students abandoned this (because “primordial stupidity”)….

 

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