RE212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Religion In Africa, Sociobiology, First Nations
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Lesson 2 aboriginal religious traditions and globalization. You are welcome, though, to use whichever abbreviation you prefer in your own writing. In other words, aboriginal religions are an extension of prehistoric religions - Aboriginal religions preserve a globe-wide mode of religion which predates many other religions. We must be careful here not to conclude that aboriginal religions are primitive in the sense of being rustic or simplistic; they are as sophisticated as any other religious tradition. The duration of the prehistoric period is vast: a period in which stone, and later bronze and iron, were the basic tools of life, the prehistoric period dates from roughly. 700,000 bce all the way down to around 700 bce. As you might imagine, the surviving evidence is so meagre that it is very difficult to know how prehistoric religions began; no general theory exists.
