1. What did Friedrich Max Müller mean by a science of religion? Why was this phrase surprising to many Victorians?
2. Pals argues that both Enlightenment thought and Romantic thought had a major influence on nineteenth-century theorists of religion. What did many Enlightenment thinkers, like the Deists, think about religion? What did the Romantic thinkers think about religion?
3. How did Tylor differ from Muller?
4. What was Tylor’s argument about survivals?
5. For Tylor, what did spirits, or anima, have to do with the origins of religion?
6. What did Tylor think of animism (note that he is using animism in “primitive” cultures to comment on animism among Christian Europeans)?