Introduction to the History of Religions / Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV

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Transcriber's Note:
Footnote links in the INDEX shown as n. x
are linked to the same footnotes with
reindexed footnote numbers.
HANDBOOKS
ON THE
HISTORY OF RELIGIONS
EDITED BY
MORRIS JASTROW, Jr., Ph.D.
Late Professor of Semitic Languages in the
University of Pennsylvania
Volume IV
LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD
Oxford University Press
INTRODUCTION TO THE
HISTORY OF RELIGIONS
BY
CRAWFORD HOWELL TOY
Late Professor in Harvard University
CAMBRIDGE
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

1924
COPYRIGHT, 1913
BY CRAWFORD HOWELL TOY
———
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Third Impression
PRINTED AT THE HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
CAMBRIDGE, MASS., U.S.A.
PREFACE
The object of this volume is to describe the principal
customs and ideas that underlie all public religion; the
details are selected from a large mass of material, which
is increasing in bulk year by year. References to the
higher religions are introduced for the purpose of
illustrating lines of progress.
The analytic table of contents and the index are meant to
supplement each other, the one giving the outline of the
discussion,
the
other
giving
the
more
important
particulars;
the
two
together
will
facilitate
the
consultation of the book. In the selected list of works of
reference the titles are arranged, as far as possible, in
chronological order, so as to indicate in a general way
the progress of investigation in the subjects mentioned.
My thanks are due to the publishers for the care they have
taken in the printing of the volume, and to their
proofreaders, particularly to the chief proofreader, for
not a few helpful suggestions.
C. H. T.
Cambridge, Massachusetts

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