Religious Studies
- Religious Studies / Volume 15 / Issue 01 / March 1979, pp 99-106
- Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1979
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0034412500011124 (About DOI), Published online: 24 October 2008
Articles
Prayer in primitive religion
Richard C. McEwena1 and Herschel E. Aseltinea2
a1 Robert Morris College, Coraopolis, Pennsylvania
a2 Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee
The aim of this paper is to examine the several aspects of prayer in primitive, i.e. nonliterate religions. The contention is that prayer does in fact exist among primitive people in their religious practices and that prayer does have a functional aspect in primitive religion.
