THE OPEN MIND LIBRARY

BEING A SERIES OF WORKS DEALING WITH
QUESTIONS AS HANDLED BY DIFFERENT
SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT, IN RELIGION,
ETHICS, PHILOSOPHY & PSYCHOLOGY

Published October 1919

Printed by Morrison & Gibb Limited, Edinburgh

THE LIST OF CHAPTERS

I.	Science & the Supernatural	page 1
II.	The Primitive Mind & its Environment	35
III.	The Religion of Mental Disease	51
IV.	Sex & Religion in Primitive Life	89
V.	The Influence of Sexual & Pathologic States on Religious Belief	120
VI.	The Stream of Tendency	145
VII.	Conversion	169
VIII.	Religious Epidemics	205
IX.	Religious Epidemics—(concluded)	226
X.	The Witch Mania	243
XI.	Summary & Conclusion	269

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PREFACE

In spite of all that has been donein the way of applying scientific principles to religiousideas, there is much that yet remains to be accomplished.Generally speaking science has only dealtwith the subject of religion in its more normaland more regularised forms. The last half-centuryhas produced many elaborate and fruitful studies ofthe origin of religious ideas, while comparative mythologyhas shown a close and suggestive relationshipbetween creeds and symbols that were once believedto have nothing in common. But beyond these fieldsof research there is at least one other that has hithertobeen denied the attention it richly deserves. Whenthe anthropologist has described those conditions ofprimitive culture amid which he believes religiousideas took their origin, and the comparative mythologisthas shown us the similarities and inter-relationsof widely separated creeds, religious beliefs have yetto submit to the test of a scientific psychology, thefunction of which is to determine how far the same principlesapply to all phases of mental life whether religiousor n

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