📚 Primitive Religion

Books with primitive religion on their catalogue record, first published between 1803 and 1979, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject primitive religion in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 214 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Golden Bough	James George Frazer	1890	374
	Custom and myth	Andrew Lang	1884	131
	Le Mythe de l'éternel retour	Mircea Eliade	1949	54
	The Making of Religion	Andrew Lang	1898	40
	The masks of God	Joseph Campbell	1959	30
	Formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse	Émile Durkheim	1915	22
	Physical religion	F. Max Müller	1891	13
	The birth of the gods	Guy E. Swanson	1960	11
	The popular religion and folk-lore of northern India	William Crooke	1896	10
	The signs and symbols of primordial man	Albert Churchward	1910	10
	Primitive religion	Lowie, Robert Harry	1924	10
	Faith, Hope And Charity In Primitive Religion	R. R. Marett	1932	10
	Medicine, magic, and religion	W. H. R. Rivers	1979	10
	An introduction to the history of religion	F. B. Jevons	1896	9
	Outlines of primitive belief among the Indo-European races	C. F. Keary	1882	8
	Mutter Erde	Albrecht Dieterich	1913	8
	Psychology and folk-lore	R. R. Marett	1920	7
	Language and myth	Ernst Cassirer	1946	7
	The heathens	William White Howells	1948	7
	Lugbara religion	Middleton, John	1960	6
	The idea of God in early religions	F. B. Jevons	1910	5
	Religion And Culture	Frederick Schleiter	1919	5
	Sprache und Mythos	Ernst Cassirer	1925	5
	The all-knowing God	Raffaele Pettazzoni	1956	5
	A dissertation on the mysteries of the Cabiri	George Stanley Faber	1803	4
	Asiatic studies, religious and social	Alfred Comyn Lyall	1882	4
	The elementary forms of the religious life	Émile Durkheim	1915	4
	Epilegomena to the study of Greek religion	Jane Ellen Harrison	1921	4
	Religion among the primitives	William Josiah Goode	1951	4
	Ishmael	James Baird	1956	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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