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UNIVERSITY of CALIFORNIA
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COMPARATIVE RELIGION

A SURVEY OF

ITS RECENT LITERATURE



TEINTED IN ENGLAND

AT THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

BY FREDERICK HALL



COMPARATIVE
RELIGION



A SURVEY OF



ITS RECENT LITERATURE



BY

LOUIS HENRY JORDAN, B.D. (EDIN.)

MEMBER OF THE INSTITUT El HNOGRAPHIQUE INTERNATIONAL, PARIS

AUTHOR OF ' COMPARATIVE RELIGION : ITS GENESIS AND GROWTH '

'THE STUDY OF RELIGION IN THE ITALIAN UNIVERSITIES', ETC.



SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND AUGMENTED

VOLUME I
1900-1909



HUMPHREY MILFORD

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

LONDON EDINBURGH GLASGOW

NEW YORK TORONTO MELBOURNE BOMBAY

1920



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First Edition. Edinburgh, 1910

Srrond Edition. (Revised throughout, but not published.) 1910

Second Edition. London, 1920



Volumes II and III (1910-1915),
revised and augmented, will be published next year.



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CONTENTS

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Preface .......... vii

FIRST SECTION

1900-1905



Bousset, Das Wesen der Religion .....

Farnell, The Cults of tlie Greek States ....

Farnell, The Evolution of Religion .....

Forlong, Short Studies in tlie. Science of Comparativi Religions
Frazer, Tlie Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion .
Hall, Christian Belief interpreted by Christian Experience .
Jordan, Comparative Religion: Its Genesis ami Growth
Kellogg, A Handbook of Comparative Religion .
MacCulloch, Comparative Theologi/ .....

Mariano, Crista e Budda, e tUtri iddii deW Oriente, 8tudii i
reUgione comparata ......

Reinach, C â– idles, mythes, et religions ....



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FOUR IMPERATIVE REQUIREMENTS

A Rigidly Restrictod Area of Research ..... :'.!>

Concentration therein upon Borne Individual Quesl . . .40

A Competent S( ientific Journal ...... 41

Lectureships in Comparative Religion . .... 42

SECOND SECTION

1906-1909

Allen and Johnson, Transactions s et