Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Study of Religion
The study of religion has taken its place among contemporary sciences, and the importance of the study can be denied by no one who appreciates the part that religion has played in the history of mankind, and still plays at the present time. It is, however, a subject beset with singular difficulties - difficulties due in part to the wide scope of the theme, in part to the intricacy of the problems involved, and in part also to the close relations existing between the study and the actual concerns of life. The existence of these difficulties makes it all the more important to develop a proper method in the study; and it is the main purpose of this work to unfold such a method.
To accomplish this end, it seemed desirable to set forth in the first place the history of the study itself, as the best means of emphasising the significance of the historical method at present adopted by scholars in the investigation of religious phenomena.
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