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
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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Third Impression

PRINTED AT THE HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
CAMBRIDGE, MASS., U.S.A.

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PREFACE

The object of this volume is to describe the principal customsand ideas that underlie all public religion; the details are selectedfrom a large mass of material, which is increasing in bulk year byyear. References to the higher religions are introduced for thepurpose of illustrating lines of progress.

The analytic table of contents and the index are meant to supplementeach other, the one giving the outline of the discussion,the other giving the more important particulars; the two togetherwill facilitate the consultation of the book. In the selected list ofworks of reference the titles are arranged, as far as possible, inchronological order, so as to indicate in a general way the progressof investigation in the subjects mentioned.

My thanks are due to the publishers for the care they have takenin the printing of the volume, and to their proofreaders, particularlyto the chief proofreader, for not a few helpful suggestions.

C. H. T.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

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CONTENTS