Project Gutenberg 2008-07-16 Public domain in the USA. 172 Weir, James, Jr. 1856 1906 Weir, James 05021026 Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, LN Yaddanapudi and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Religion and Lust" by James Weir, Jr. is a scientific publication written in the late 19th century. This work explores the complex relationship between religious emotions and sexual desire from a physio-psychical perspective. The author examines various belief systems and rituals throughout history, positing that religious sentiment often has roots in natural phenomena and sensual perceptions, eventually evolving into more abstract forms of spirituality. The opening of the book presents the author's argument that primitive man’s first concepts of the supernatural likely stemmed from his direct observations and interactions with nature. He discusses how early religious feelings began as practical responses to the environment and the need for survival, suggesting that it was only after humans gained certain cognitive capacities that they developed more abstract ideologies regarding deities and the divine. Weir cites evidence from ancient peoples and their worship practices, indicating that the intertwining of sexual symbolism and religious observance is a historical constant, thus setting the stage for a broader discussion of the psychical correlations between religious feeling and sexual desire throughout human history. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Sex -- Religious aspects HQ Text Browsing: Gender & Sexuality Studies Browsing: Psychiatry/Psychology Browsing: Religion/Spirituality/Paranormal 300413 300422 2024-09-11T08:04:21.544961 2023-09-11T11:12:22.606958 text/html text/html 304627 2021-01-25T18:40:03 text/html; charset=utf-8 104919 2021-01-25T18:40:03 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 161910 2024-09-11T08:04:28.439931 application/epub+zip 162575 2024-09-11T08:04:23.408958 application/epub+zip 162575 2024-09-11T08:04:22.290960 application/epub+zip 340631 2024-09-11T08:04:32.041913 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 306478 2024-09-11T08:04:27.642953 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 326543 2022-09-12T07:50:38.410847 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 242330 2024-09-11T08:04:20.761041 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 241466 2009-03-06T14:35:28 text/plain; charset=utf-8 92826 2009-03-06T14:35:58 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 242139 2009-03-06T14:35:36 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 92891 2009-03-06T14:35:58 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 242169 2009-03-06T14:35:42 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 92729 2009-03-06T14:35:58 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21381 2024-09-11T08:04:32.181956 application/rdf+xml 14151 2024-09-11T08:04:22.663971 image/jpeg 3756 2024-09-11T08:04:22.477015 image/jpeg 152587 2024-09-11T08:04:21.567996 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog