Religions

Works on religious groups whose adherents recognize special teachings or practices which fall within the normative bounds of the major world religions are entered under Sects.

Here are entered works on the major world religions.

Works on groups or movements whose system of religious beliefs or practices differs significantly from the major world religions and which are often gathered around a specific deity or person are entered under Cults.

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• Religions -- Bibliography
• Religions -- Congresses
• Religions -- Dictionaries
• Religions -- Early works to 1800
• Religions -- Encyclopedias
• Religions -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
• Religions -- History
• Religions -- Juvenile literature
• Religions -- Periodicals
• Religions -- Quotations, maxims, etc.
• Religions -- Relations
• Religions -- Social aspects
• Religions -- Study and teaching
• Assyro-Babylonian religion
• Babism
• Bahai Faith
• Brahmanism
• Buddhism
• Christianity
• Christianity and other religions
• Confucianism
• Cults
• Druids and druidism
• Hinduism
• Islam
• Jainism
• Judaism
• Mythology
• Occultism
• Paganism
• Polity (Religion)
• Positivism
• Psychology, Religious
• Religion and politics
• Religious biography
• Religious ethics
• Religious pluralism
• Sects
• Shamanism
• Shinto
• Sikhism
• Taoism
• Theosophy
• Zoroastrianism

• Comparative religion
• Denominations, Religious
• Religion, Comparative
• Religions, Comparative
• Religious denominations
• World religions

• The Common Foundation of All Religions, by Henry Steel Olcott (PDF at theosophical.ca)
• Darwinism in Morals, and Other Essays (London and Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate, 1872), by Frances Power Cobbe (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Error's Chains: How Forged and Broken (New York: Standard Publishing House, 1883), by Frank S. Dobbins, contrib. by S. Wells Williams and Isaac H. Hall (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Gods and Devils of Mankind (c1897), by Frank S. Dobbins, contrib. by S. Wells Williams and Isaac H. Hall
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Hebrew and Other Creations Fundamentally Explained, by Gerald Massey (HTML in the UK)
• How the Gods Were Made: A Study in Historical Materialism (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr and Co., ca. 1929), by John Keracher (PDF with rotated pages at archive.org)
• The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism, by Franz Valery Marie Cumont, contrib. by Grant Showerman (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Pagan Christs: Studies in Comparative Hierology (2nd edition; London: Watts and Co., 1911), by J. M. Robertson (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Religious Ceremonies and Customs: or, The Forms of Worship Practised by the Several Nations of the Known World, From the Earliest Records to the Present Time (London: Printed for T. Tegg; et al., 1841), by William Burder, illust. by Bernard Picart (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Revolution of Values Through Religion (c1991), by Ben Klassen (PDF at creativitymovement.net)
• The Ruins: or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires; and The Law of Nature, by C.-F. Volney (Gutenberg text)
• The Story of Religious Controversy, by Joseph McCabe (HTML at infidels.org)
• The Tao Teh King: A Short Study in Comparative Religion (Chicago: Theosophical Book Concern, 1905), by Laozi, ed. by C. Spurgeon Medhurst (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• What the World Believes, the False and the True (New York: Gay Bros. and Co., c1886), ed. by George J. Hagar (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors, by Kersey Graves
  • HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
  • HTML with commentary at infidels.org

• Concise Dictionary of Religion, by Irving Hexham (HTML at Calgary)

• Cérémonies et Coutumes Religieuses de Tous Les Peuples du Monde (first editions in multiple languages, with commentary), ed. by Jean-Frédéric Bernard, illust. by Bernard Picart (page images with commentary at UCLA)
• Hakluytus Posthumus, or, Purchas his Pilgrimes (4 volumes; London: Imprinted for H. Fetherston, 1625), by Samuel Purchas (page images at LOC)
• Kitab al-milal wa-al-nihal: Book of Religious and Philosophical Sects (2 volumes in Arabic, with English title pages and prefatory matter; London: Printed for the Society for the Publication of Oriental Texts, 1842-1846), by Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Karim Shahrastani, ed. by William Cureton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Purchas His Pilgrimage (London: Printed by W. Stansby for H. Fetherstone, 1626), by Samuel Purchas (page images at LOC)

• World Religions in Boston: A Guide to Communities and Resources (1998), ed. by Diana L. Eck and Elinor J. Pierce (frame-dependent HTML at Harvard)

• World Scripture: A Comparative Anthology of Sacred Texts, ed. by Andrew Wilson
  • HTML at unification.net
  • HTML at tparents.org

• Abrahamic Faiths, Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflicts (1997), ed. by Paul Peachey, George F. McLean, and John Kromkowski (HTML at crvp.org)

• Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion, As Illustrated by the Religion of the Ancient Babylonians, by A. H. Sayce (PDF at ETANA)
• Myths of Babylonia and Assyria, by Donald A. Mackenzie
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
  • Gutenberg text
• The Religion of Babylon and Assyria, by Morris Jastrow (PDF at ETANA)
• The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, by Theophilus G. Pinches (Gutenberg text)

• The Dawn-Breakers, by Nabil Zarandi, trans. by Shoghi Effendi (HTML at bahai.org)
• Materials for the Study of the Bábí Religion, ed. by Edward Granville Browne (HTML at bahai-library.org)
• Selections from the Writings of the Báb, by 'Ali Muhammad Shirazi Báb (HTML at bahai-library.org)
• A Traveler's Narrative Written to Illustrate the Episode of the Bab, by 'Abdu'l-Bahá (HTML at bahai-library.org)

• Abdul-Baha on Divine Philosophy, by 'Abdu'l-Bahá, ed. by Isabel Fraser Chamberlain (HTML at bahai-library.org)
• Bahá'u'lláh and the New Era: An Introduction to the Bahá'í Faith, by John Ebenezer Esslement (HTML at bahai-library.org)
• Bahiyyih Khanum, The Greatest Holy Leaf (HTML at bahai-library.org)
• Bahíyyih Khánum, the Greatest Holy Leaf, by Bahíyyih Khánum (HTML at Ibiblio)
• The Brilliant Proof, by Mirza Abu al-Fadl Gulpayagani (HTML at bahai-library.org)
• The Chosen Highway, by Sara Louisa Ryan Blomfield (HTML at bahai-library.org)
• A Compilation on Bahá'i Education, ed. by Universal House of Justice (HTML at bahai.org)
• The Dawn-Breakers, by Nabil Zarandi, trans. by Shoghi Effendi (HTML at bahai.org)
• Dawn of a New Day, by Shoghi Effendi (HTML at bahai-library.org)
• Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, by Bahá'u'lláh (HTML at bahai-library.org)
• The Eternal Quest for God: An Introduction to the Divine Philosophy of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, by Julio Savi (HTML at bahai-library.org)
• Foundations of World Unity, by 'Abdu'l-Bahá (HTML at bahai-library.org)
• Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, by Bahá'u'lláh (HTML at bahai-library.org)
• The Hidden Words of Bahá'u'lláh, by Bahá'u'lláh (HTML at bahai-library.org)
• Memorials of the Faithful, by 'Abdu'l-Bahá (HTML at bahai-library.org)
• Messages to the Bahá'í World: 1950-1957, by Shoghi Effendi (HTML at bahai-library.org)
• Portals to Freedom, by Howard Colby Ives (HTML at bahai-library.org)
• Proclamation of Bahá'u'lláh, by Bahá'u'lláh (HTML at bahai-library.org)
• The Promised Day is Come, by Shoghi Effendi (HTML at bahai-library.org)
• The Promulgation of Universal Peace, by 'Abdu'l-Bahá (HTML at bahai-library.org)
• The Reconciliation of Races and Religions, by T. K. Cheyne (Gutenberg text)
• The Secret of Divine Civilization, by 'Abdu'l-Bahá (HTML at bahai-library.org)
• Selections from the Writings of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, by 'Abdu'l-Bahá (HTML at bahai-library.org)
• Selections from the Writings of the Báb, by 'Ali Muhammad Shirazi Báb (HTML at bahai-library.org)
• Tablets of the Divine Plan, by 'Abdu'l-Bahá (HTML at bahai-library.org)
• Ten Days in the Light of 'Akká, by Julia Margaret Kunkle Grundy (HTML at bahai-library.org)
• A Traveler's Narrative Written to Illustrate the Episode of the Bab, by 'Abdu'l-Bahá (HTML at bahai-library.org)
• The Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, by 'Abdu'l-Bahá (HTML at bahai-library.org)
• The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, by Shoghi Effendi (HTML at bahai-library.org)

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