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# Theory of Original Monotheism - Austrian anthropologist and ethnologist - Wilhelm Schmidt in Austria and Africa, basic cultures held a common belief in a distant God, that originally there had been one great God above the others, and that may have been the creator of the world or the father of...

# Theory of Original Monotheism - Austrian anthropologist and ethnologist - Wilhelm Schmidt in Austria and Africa, basic cultures held a common belief in a distant God, that originally there had been one great God above the others, and that may have been the creator of the world or the father of the many lesser deities. # Magic Theory James George Frazer (1854-1941) - Scottish anthropologist People had gone through three phases of development concerning the spirit world: 1. Primitive magic (wherein people attempted to control nature in the hope that nature will cooperate if rituals are done properly) 2. Religion (wherein people implored nature to cooperate since they have realised that nature cannot be coerced) 3. Science (wherein a rational understanding of nature is operative) # Wish fulfillment theory Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach (1804-1872) - German philosopher and anthropologist There were no gods, and that belief in gods was simply wish fulfillment. Troubled people who could not cope with the difficulties in life projected their wishes and developed gods and religions. Karl Heinrich Marx Religions were developed by the few as a means to control the masses ## Geography of Faith - **Temple Mount** is one of the most sacred sites in the world that recovers Jews, Muslim, and Christians. - **Mount Ararat** (Eastern Part of Turkey) - Traditional landing place of Noah's ark and narrated the book of Genesis. - **Mount Sinai** (Sinai Peninsula in Egypt) - The peak where Moses received the ten commandments.