Primäre und sekundäre Religion als Kategorie der Religionsgeschichte des Alten Testaments (BZAW 364)

Following him, Assmann-an Egyptologist with a keen interest in the Bible-applied these categories to the study of religion, but he changed the categories somewhat by distinguishing between primary religion (a religious system taken for granted as part of a given society's culture) and secondary religion (a confessional religion resulting from intellectual reflection, with the claim that all other religions are somehow "false" or "wrong"); with this distinction, of course, no synthesis is possible, because the primary and secondary religions do not really interact with each other, and neither of them influences the other.