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Religions: Ancient & Modern
Publisher: Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd.; Constable & Company.
Country: United Kingdom. Date: 1905-21.
Judaism
by Israel Abrahams
London: Constable and Company, 1910 (Second edition) (Religions: Ancient and Modern).
Hardback with gilt-blocked and blind tooled very dark green or black cloth. No dust wrapper. 107 pages. Size: 18 cm.
RELIGIONS: ANCIENT & MODERN (CONSTABLE)
Series Note: "Religions: Ancient and Modern.
Foolscap 8vo. 1s. net per volume.
It is intended in this series to present to a large public the salient features, first of the great religions, secondly of the great philosophies, and thirdly of the great literary and artistic reputations of the human race."
Source: List in the first pages of Religions of Ancient China - Herbert A. Giles. London, Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd., 1905 (Religions: Ancient and Modern).
Titles in this series were issued with dust wrappers, though these have rarely survived.
The series was published by Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd., of 16 James Street, Haymarket, London, and later by Constable & Company.
Credit: My thanks to Dr Patrick Spedding, Literary Studies Coordinator in the Faculty of Arts at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, and a book collector, who provided corrections and additions for this series list. You can read his blog here.
Title / Author(s) / Publication Year(s)
Arranged alphabetically by author
Judaism
by Israel Abrahams, Lecturer in Talmudic and Rabinnic Literature in Cambridge University; author of Jewish Life in the Middle Ages
1907; 1917
Islam
by Ameer Ali, Syed, M.A., C.I.E., late of H.M.’s High Court of Judicature in Bengal and a member of the Imperial Legislative Council of India; author of The Spirit of Islam and The Ethics of Islam; and Mahmoud Saba
1906; 1909; 1914
Celtic Religion in Pre-Christian Times
by Professor E. Anwyl [Edward Anwyl], Professor of Welsh at University College, Aberystwyth
1906
Shinto: The Ancient Religion of Japan
by W. G. Aston, C.M.G., LL.D.; author of A History of Japanese Literature
1907; 1910; 1921
The Religion of Ancient Rome
by Cyril Bailey, M.A.
1907; 1911
Hinduism
by Dr. L. D. Barnett, of the Department of Oriental Printed Books and MSS., British Museum
1906; 1913
Animism: The Seed of Religion
by Edward Clodd, author of The Story of Creation
1905
The Religion of Ancient Palestine in the Second Millennium B.C.: In the Light of Archaeology and the Inscriptions
by Stanley A. Cook [Stanley Arthur Cook]
1908; 1921
The Religion of Ancient Scandinavia
by William A. Craigie, M.A., Taylorian Lecturer in the Scandinavian languages, Oxford; author of Scandinavian Folk-lore; joint editor of the Oxford English Dictionary
With the assistance of John Beveridge; University of St. Andrews Library. Beveridge Collection.
1906
The Religions of Ancient China
by Prof. Herbert A. Giles, M.A., LL.D., Professor of Chinese in the University of Cambridge
1905
Magic and Fetishism
by Dr. A. C. Haddon, F.R.S., Lecturer on Ethnology in Cambridge University
1906; 1921
The Religion of Ancient Greece
by Jane Harrison, lecturer at Newnham College, Cambridge; author of Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion
1905
The Psychological Origin and Nature of Religion
by Prof. J. H. Leuba
1909
Congregationalism
by Benjamin Albert Millard
1912
The Religion of Ancient Egypt
by Prof. W. M. Flinders Petrie, F.R.S.
1912
Pantheism: Its Story and Significance
by James Allanson Picton, author of The Religion of the Universe
1914
The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
by Theophilus G. Pinches [Theophilus Goldridge Pinches], late of the British Museum
1906
Mithraism
by W. J. Phythian-Adams
1915
Early Buddhism
by Prof. T. W. Rhys Davids [Thomas William Rhys Davids], LL.D., late secretary of The Royal Asiatic Society, Professor of Comparative Religion at Owens College, Professor of Buddhist Literature at University College, London, and Fellow of the British Academy
1908
The Quakers, Past and Present
by Dorothy M. Richardson
1914
The Conception of Immortality
by Josiah Royce
1906
Early Christianity (Paul to Origen)
by S. B. Slack, Professor at McGill University
1908; 1914
The Mythologies of Ancient Mexico and Peru
by Lewis Spence, M.A.
1921
The Mythology of Ancient Britain and Ireland
by Charles Squire, author of The Mythology of the British Islands
1906
Unitarianism
by W. G. Tarrant
1912
Note:
Several additional books were advertised but apparently never issued in this series:
- Islam in India by T. W. Arnold [Thomas Walker Arnold]
- Manicheeism, by F. C. Conybeare
- Medieval Christianity by John Sutherland Black
- Primitive or Nicene Christianity
- The Religion of Ancient Israel by Morris Jastrow
- The Religion of Ancient Italy
- The Religion of Ancient Persia, by A. V. Williams Jackson
- The Religion of the Hebrews by Morris Jastrow
- Zoroastrianism
Author:
David Paul Wagner
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