name: James George Frazer
birth_date: 1854-01-01 00:00:00
death_date: 1941-05-07 00:00:00
genres: Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality
influences: William Robertson Smith
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about: Sir James George Frazer was a Scottish social anthropologist influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion. His most famous work, The Golden Bough (1890), documents and details the similarities among magical and religious beliefs around the globe. Frazer posited that human belief progressed through three stages: primitive magic, replaced by religion, in turn replaced by science.