The Psychology of Religious Belief
The Psychology of Religious Belief
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23K Digitized by VjOOQIC RELIGIOUS BELIEF IN ISRAEL 147 perfectly distinct kinds of religious emotion. One is a violent form of excitement, a passionate, abnormal flinging away of all self-control, a sort of religious intoxication indulged in largely for its delightful effects, a sacred madness, typified by the Dionysian dance of the Greeks and the shamanism of the Mon- gols. It is very susceptible of cultivation, and elabo- rate methods are concocted and pursued to bring it about. It is seen a...t its best in uncivilized peoples or among the less cultured members of civilized com- munities. The second type, though intense, is calm and quiet in its expression and usually spontaneous in its origin. Unlike the first, it is inhibited rather than induced by the presence of a crowd. It comes most often in solitude and it never goes to the fan- tastic and abnormal extremes of the first type. A fairly high scale of culture seems to be the condition of its appearance ; one must look for it, not among the ecstatic dancers and medicine-men of the uncivilized, but among the Indian mystics, the Hebrew prophets, and the great religious leaders the world over.
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23K Digitized by VjOOQIC RELIGIOUS BELIEF IN ISRAEL 147 perfectly distinct kinds of religious emotion. One is a violent form of excitement, a passionate, abnormal flinging away of all self-control, a sort of religious intoxication indulged in largely for its delightful effects, a sacred madness, typified by the Dionysian dance of the Greeks and the shamanism of the Mon- gols. It is very susceptible of cultivation, and elabo- rate methods are concocted and pursued to bring it about. It is seen a...t its best in uncivilized peoples or among the less cultured members of civilized com- munities. The second type, though intense, is calm and quiet in its expression and usually spontaneous in its origin. Unlike the first, it is inhibited rather than induced by the presence of a crowd. It comes most often in solitude and it never goes to the fan- tastic and abnormal extremes of the first type. A fairly high scale of culture seems to be the condition of its appearance ; one must look for it, not among the ecstatic dancers and medicine-men of the uncivilized, but among the Indian mystics, the Hebrew prophets, and the great religious leaders the world over.
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