Description
This edition of The Worship of Nature, Volume I contains the full text of the Gifford Lectures delivered by Sir J. G. Frazer at the University of Edinburgh in 1924–1925. Frazer, renowned Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Liverpool, brings his authoritative scholarship to explore humanity’s earliest religious impulses.
The book examines the deep-seated tendency of early human cultures to personify and worship natural forces—the Sky, Earth, and Sun—as deities or spirits capable of influencing human life for good or ill. Frazer surveys these beliefs across the world, including Aryan, Vedic, Persian, Greek, Roman, Babylonian, Assyrian, Egyptian, Far Eastern, Indian, African, and pre-Columbian American civilizations.
