{"product_id":"2940015630411","title":"Ten Great Religions","description":"Contents.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction.--Ethnic and Catholic Religions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  § 1. Object of the present Work\u003cbr\u003e  § 2. Comparative Theology; its Nature, Value, and present Position\u003cbr\u003e  § 3. Ethnic Religions. Injustice often done to them by Christian\u003cbr\u003e         Apologists\u003cbr\u003e  § 4. How Ethnic Religions were regarded by Christ and his Apostles\u003cbr\u003e  § 5. Comparative Theology will furnish a new Class of Evidences in\u003cbr\u003e         Support of Christianity\u003cbr\u003e  § 6. It will show that, while most of the Religions of the World are\u003cbr\u003e         Ethnic, or the Religions of Races, Christianity is Catholic, or\u003cbr\u003e         adapted to become the Religion of all Races\u003cbr\u003e  § 7. It will show that Ethnic Religions are partial, Christianity\u003cbr\u003e         universal\u003cbr\u003e  § 8. It will show that Ethnic Religions are arrested, but that\u003cbr\u003e         Christianity is steadily progressive\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter II.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConfucius and the Chinese, or the Prose of Asia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  § 1. Peculiarities of Chinese Civilization\u003cbr\u003e  § 2. Chinese Government based on Education. Civil-Service Examinations\u003cbr\u003e  § 3. Life and Character of Confucius\u003cbr\u003e  § 4. Philosophy and subsequent Development of Confucianism\u003cbr\u003e  § 5. Lao-tse and Tao-ism\u003cbr\u003e  § 6. Religious Character of the \"Kings.\"\u003cbr\u003e  § 7. Confucius and Christianity. Character of the Chinese\u003cbr\u003e  § 8. The Tae-ping Insurrection\u003cbr\u003e  Note. The Nestorian Inscription in China\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter III.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrahmanism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  § 1. Our Knowledge of Brahmanism. Sir William Jones\u003cbr\u003e  § 2. Difficulty of this Study. The Complexity of the System. The\u003cbr\u003e         Hindoos have no History. Their Ultra-Spiritualism\u003cbr\u003e  § 3. Helps from Comparative Philology. The Aryans in Central Asia\u003cbr\u003e  § 4. The Aryans in India. The Native Races. The Vedic Age. Theology\u003cbr\u003e         of the Vedas\u003cbr\u003e  § 5. Second Period. Laws of Manu. The Brahmanic Age\u003cbr\u003e  § 6. The Three Hindoo Systems of Philosophy,--The Sankhya, Vedanta,\u003cbr\u003e         and Nyasa\u003cbr\u003e  § 7. Origin of the Hindoo Triad\u003cbr\u003e  § 8. The Epics, the Puranas, and Modern Hindoo Worship\u003cbr\u003e  § 9. Relation of Brahmanism to Christianity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter IV.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBuddhism, or the Protestantism of the East.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  § 1. Buddhism, in its Forms, resembles Romanism; in its Spirit,\u003cbr\u003e         Protestantism\u003cbr\u003e  § 2. Extent of Buddhism. Its Scriptures\u003cbr\u003e  § 3. Sakya-muni, the Founder of Buddhism\u003cbr\u003e  § 4. Leading Doctrines of Buddhism\u003cbr\u003e  § 5. The Spirit of Buddhism Rational and Humane\u003cbr\u003e  § 6. Buddhism as a Religion\u003cbr\u003e  § 7. Karma and Nirvana\u003cbr\u003e  § 8. Good and Evil of Buddhism\u003cbr\u003e  § 9. Relation of Buddhism to Christianity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter V.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eZoroaster and the Zend Avesta.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  § 1. Ruins of the Palace of Xerxes at Persepolis\u003cbr\u003e  § 2. Greek Accounts of Zoroaster. Plutarch's Description of his Religion\u003cbr\u003e  § 3. Anquetil du Perron and his Discovery of the Zend Avesta\u003cbr\u003e  § 4. Epoch of Zoroaster. What do we know of him?\u003cbr\u003e  § 5. Spirit of Zoroaster and of his Religion\u003cbr\u003e  § 6. Character of the Zend Avesta\u003cbr\u003e  § 7. Later Development of the System in the Bundehesch\u003cbr\u003e  § 8. Relation of the Religion of the Zend Avesta to that of the Vedas\u003cbr\u003e  § 9. Is Monotheism or pure Dualism the Doctrine of the Zend Avesta\u003cbr\u003e  § 10. Relation of this System to Christianity. The Kingdom of Heaven\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter VI.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Gods of Egypt.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  § 1. Antiquity and Extent of Egyptian Civilization\u003cbr\u003e  § 2. Religious Character of the Egyptians. Their Ritual\u003cbr\u003e  § 3. Theology of Egypt. Sources of our Knowledge concerning it\u003cbr\u003e  § 4. Central Idea of Egyptian Theology and Religion. Animal Worship\u003cbr\u003e  § 5. Sources of Egyptian Theology. Age of the Empire and Affinities of\u003cbr\u003e         the Race\u003cbr\u003e  § 6. The Three Orders of Gods\u003cbr\u003e  § 7. Influence upon Judaism and Christianity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter VII.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Gods Of Greece.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  § 1. The Land and the Race\u003cbr\u003e  § 2. Idea and general Character of Greek Religion\u003cbr\u003e  § 3. The Gods of Greece before Homer\u003cbr\u003e  § 4. The Gods of the Poets\u003cbr\u003e  § 5. The Gods of the Artists\u003cbr\u003e  § 6. The Gods of the Philosophers\u003cbr\u003e  § 7. Worship of Greece\u003cbr\u003e  § 8. The Mysteries. Orphism\u003cbr\u003e  § 9. Relation of Greek Religion to Christianity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter VIII.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Religion of Rome.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  § 1. Origin and essential Character of the Religion of Rome\u003cbr\u003e  § 2. The Gods of Rome\u003cbr\u003e  § 3. Worship and Ritual\u003cbr\u003e  § 4. The Decay of the Roman Religion","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47074245804272,"sku":"2940015630411","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015630411","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}