• By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.

    James G. Frazer: By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.
    "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.