Table of Contents

Introductory Essay 'Semitic Monotheism' (1860) 'Lecture on the Vedas' (1865) 'Buddhist Nihilism' (1869) 'On False Analogies in Comparative Theology' (1870) 'The Migration of Fables' (1870) 'On the Philosophy of Mythology' (1871) 'Introduction to the Science of Religion' (Chapter 1, 1874) 'The Perception of the Infinite' (1878) 'Is Fetishism a Primitive Form of Religion?' (1878) 'Metaphor as a Mode of Abstraction' (1886) 'Physical Religion' (1890) 'Religion, Myth, and Custom' (1890) 'Discovery of the Soul in Man and in Nature' (1891) 'Funeral Ceremonies' (1891) 'What was Thought about the Departed' (1891) 'The Divine and the Human' (1891) Appendix: notes and translated addenda Index

About the Author

JON R. STONE is Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the California University in Bakersfield. Stone is the author and editor of numerous books, including Latin for the Illiterati, Expecting Armageddon, On the Boundaries of American Evangelicalism (Palgrave), and The Craft of Religious Studies (Palgrave).

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