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Title: An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion

Author: Frank Byron Jevons

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THE HARTFORD-LAMSON LECTURES ON
THE RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD

AN INTRODUCTION

TO THE STUDY OF

COMPARATIVE RELIGION

BY

FRANK BYRON JEVONS

PRINCIPAL OF BISHOP HATFIELD'S HALL, DURHAM
UNIVERSITY, DURHAM, ENGLAND

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1920

_All rights reserved_

COPYRIGHT, 1908,

By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1908.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing--Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

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NOTE

The Hartford-Lamson Lectures on "The Religions of the World" are
delivered at Hartford Theological Seminary in connection with the
Lamson Fund, which was established by a group of friends in honor of
the late Charles M. Lamson, D.D., sometime President of the American
Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, to assist in preparing
students for the foreign missionary field. The Lectures are designed
primarily to give to such students a good knowledge of the religious
history, beliefs, and customs of the peoples among whom they expect to
labor. As they are delivered by scholars of the first rank, who are
authorities in their respective fields, it is expected that in
published form they will prove to be of value to students generally.

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CONTENTS

PAGE

INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
IMMORTALITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
MAGIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
FETICHISM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
PRAYER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
SACRIFICE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
MORALITY