Ten Great Religions

Author?s aim is to enable the reader to become acquainted with the doctrines and customs of the principal religions of the world, without having to consult numerous volumes. He has not come to the task without some preparation, for it is more than twenty-five years since he first made of this study a speciality. In this volume it is attempted to give the latest results of modem investigations, so far as any definite and trust-worthy facts have been attained. But the writer is well aware of the difficulty of being always accurate in a task which involves such interminable study and such an amount of details.

CONTENTS: VOLUME 1
Ethnic and Catholic Religions; Confucius and the Chinese; Brahmanism; Buddhism, or the Protestantism of the East; Zoroaster and the Zend Avesta; The Gods of Egypt; The Gods of Greece; The Religion of Rome; The Teutonic and Scandinavian Religion; The Jewish Religion; Mohammed and Islam ; The Ten Religions and Christianity.

CONTENTS: VOLUME 2
Description and Classification; Special Types; Origin and Development of all Religions; The Idea of God in all Religions: Animism, Polytheism, Pantheism, Ditheism, Tritheism, Monotheism; The Soul and its Transmigrations; Origin of the World; Inspiration and Art; Ethics; Idea of Future State ; Future Religion of Mankind.