prereligious

English

Etymology

pre- +‎ religious

Adjective

prereligious (not comparable)

  1. Before the existence of religion.
    • 1870, E. B. Tylor, The Philosophy of Religion (in Journal of the Ethnological Society of London, volume 2, page 370)
      Here, they will naturally say, are tribes of men who have no religion because their forefathers never had any. They represent a prereligious stage of the human race, above which, in the course of ages, religious stages have risen […]
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