Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics
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Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, Vol. 1 (A-Art)

James Hastings1908
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Volume 1 of James Hastings' monumental Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics (1908–1926), covering entries from A to Art. Major articles include Abandonment, Abstinence, Atonement, Ancestor-Worship, Angels, Animism, Anthropomorphism, Apologetics, and Art (in religion). Contributions by leading scholars of the day — including Andrew Lang, F. B. Jevons, and W. R. Inge — represent the full range of world religions and ethical systems. The standard scholarly reference work on comparative religion for the first half of the 20th century.

EditionPublished 1908–1926 by T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh; ed. James Hastings
Anthropology of ReligionHistory of ReligionsHistory of religionComparative ReligionComparative study of religious phenomenaBritish anthropologyAnthropological approach to religionComparative theologyComparative Mythology (Scholarly)

Contents286 chapters

  1. 01ABANDONMENT
  2. 02I. Exposure
  3. 03ABANDONMENT AND EXPOSURE (American)
  4. 04ABANDONMENT AND EXPOSURE (Hindu)
  5. 05ABANDONMENT AND EXPOSURE (Japanese)
  6. 06ABANDONMENT AND EXPOSURE (Persian)
  7. 07ABASEMENT
  8. 08ABBOT (Christian)
  9. 09ABBOT (Tibetan)
  10. 10ABBOT OF UNREASON
  11. 11‘ABD AL-QĀDIR AL-JĪLĀNĪ
  12. 12I. Life
  13. 13'ABD AR-RAZZĀQ
  14. 14ABDUCTION
  15. 15ABELARD
  16. 16ABETMENT
  17. 17ABHAYAGIRI
  18. 18ABHIDHAMMA
  19. 19ABHIDHARMA KOŚA VYĀKHYĀ
  20. 20ABHIṢEKA
  21. 21ANOINTING
  22. 22A. 1. Subjects of the ceremony
  23. 23ABILITY
  24. 24ABIOGENESIS (I.)
  25. 25ABIOGENESIS (II.)
  26. 26ABIPONES
  27. 27ABNORMALITIES (Biological)
  28. 28ABNORMALITIES (Psychological)
  29. 29ABOR, ABOR-MIRI
  30. 30ABORIGINES
  31. 31ABOULIA
  32. 32ABSOLUTE
  33. 33I. Meaning of the term
  34. 34ABSOLUTE (Vedāntic and Buddhistic)
  35. 35ABSOLUTION
  36. 36ABSOLUTISM
  37. 37ABSTINENCE
  38. 38ABSTRACTION
  39. 39ĀBŪ
  40. 40ABUSE, ABUSIVE LANGUAGE
  41. 41ABYSS
  42. 42ABYSSINIA
  43. 43ACADEMY, ACADEMICS
  44. 44ACCEPTANCE
  45. 45ACCEPTILATION
  46. 46ACCESS
  47. 47ACCIDENTALISM
  48. 48ACCIDENTS
  49. 49ACCIDENTS (Injurious)
  50. 50ACCIDIE
  51. 51ACCOMMODATION
  52. 52ACCUMULATION
  53. 53ACHELOUS
  54. 54ACHILLES
  55. 55ACOSMISM
  56. 56ACOSTA
  57. 57ACROSTIC
  58. 58ACT, ACTION
  59. 59ACTION SERMON
  60. 60ACTIVITY
  61. 61ADAM'S BRIDGE
  62. 62ADAM'S PEAK
  63. 63ADAPTATION
  64. 64ADELARD
  65. 65ADIAPHORISM
  66. 66ĀDIBUDDHA
  67. 67ADMIRATION
  68. 68ADMONITION
  69. 69ADOLESCENCE
  70. 70ADOPTIANISM
  71. 71ADOPTION (among lower races)
  72. 72ADOPTION (Chinese)
  73. 73ADOPTION (Greek)
  74. 74ADOPTION (Hindu)
  75. 75ADOPTION (Japanese)
  76. 76ADORATION
  77. 77ADORATION (Biblical)
  78. 78ADORATION (Jewish and Christian, post-Biblical)
  79. 79ADULTERATION
  80. 80ADULTERY (Buddhist)
  81. 81ADULTERY (Egyptian)
  82. 82ADULTERY (Greek)
  83. 83ADULTERY (Hindu)
  84. 84ADULTERY (Muslim)
  85. 85ADULTERY (Christian)
  86. 86ADULTERY (Parsi)
  87. 87ADULTERY (Roman)
  88. 88ADULTERY (Semitic)
  89. 89ADVAITA
  90. 90ADVOCATE
  91. 91ÆGEAN RELIGION
  92. 92AEGIS
  93. 93ÆONS
  94. 94ÆSCHYLUS
  95. 95A. E. Haigh’s
  96. 96J. A. Symonds
  97. 97E. Myers
  98. 98K. O. Müller’s
  99. 99F. Welcker’s
  100. 100K. F. Nägelsbach’s
  101. 101G. Dronke’s
  102. 102E. Buchholz’s
  103. 103E. de Faye’s
  104. 104ÆSTHETICISM
  105. 105ÆSTHETICS
  106. 106ÆTHER
  107. 107ÆTIOLOGY
  108. 108AFGHANISTAN
  109. 109AFRICA
  110. 110ĀGAMA
  111. 111AGAOS
  112. 112ORIGIN OF THE AGAPE
  113. 113AGAPÊMONE
  114. 114AGAPĒTÆ
  115. 115AGARIĀ, AGAR, AGARĪ
  116. 116AGASTYA
  117. 117AGE
  118. 118AGES OF THE WORLD (Christian*)
  119. 119O. Gruppe
  120. 120AGES OF THE WORLD (Indian)
  121. 121AGES OF THE WORLD (Jewish)
  122. 122AGHORI, AGHORAPANTHĪ, AUGAR, AUGHAR
  123. 123AGITATION
  124. 124AGNOIOLOGY
  125. 125AGNOSTICISM
  126. 126AGNOSTICISM (Buddhist)
  127. 127I. Authorities
  128. 128AGRA
  129. 129AGRAULIDS
  130. 130AGRICULTURE
  131. 131AHERIA
  132. 132AHIṀSĀ
  133. 133AHIQAR, THE STORY OF
  134. 134AHĪR
  135. 135AHMADĀBĀD, AHMEDĀBĀD
  136. 136AHOMS
  137. 137AHRIMAN
  138. 138AHUNA-VAIRYA
  139. 139AIR and GODS OF THE AIR
  140. 140AIYANAR
  141. 141AJANTA
  142. 142AKBAR
  143. 143AKIBA BEN JOSEPH
  144. 144ALAKHNĀMĪS, ALAKHGĪRS, or ALAKHIYĀS
  145. 145ALCHEMY (Muhammadan)
  146. 146I. Authors
  147. 147ALCHEMY (European)
  148. 148ALCHERINGA
  149. 149ALEUTS
  150. 150ALLĀH
  151. 151ALLĀHĀBĀD
  152. 152ALLEGORY, ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION
  153. 153ALL FOOLS' DAY
  154. 154ALTAR (African)
  155. 155ALTAR (American)
  156. 156ALTAR (Celtic)
  157. 157ALTAR (Chinese)
  158. 158ALTAR (Christian)
  159. 159ALTAR (Egyptian)
  160. 160ALTAR (Greek)
  161. 161ALTAR (Hindu)
  162. 162ALTAR (Slavonic)
  163. 163ALTAR (Teutonic)
  164. 164ALTER
  165. 165ALTRUISM
  166. 166AMANA SOCIETY
  167. 167AMARKANTAK
  168. 168AMARNĀTH
  169. 169AMBARNĀTH
  170. 170AMAZONS
  171. 171AMBĒR
  172. 172AMBITION
  173. 173AMBROSE OF MILAN
  174. 174AMERICA (Ethnology, Religion, and Ethics*)
  175. 175AMERICA, SOUTH
  176. 176AMESHA SPENTAS
  177. 177AMPHICTYONY
  178. 178AMRITSAR
  179. 179AMUSEMENTS
  180. 180A. 1
  181. 181B. I
  182. 182AMYRALDISM
  183. 183ANABAPTISM
  184. 184ANÆSTHESIA
  185. 185ANĀGATA VAṀSA
  186. 186ANĀHITA
  187. 187ANALOGY
  188. 188ĀNANDA
  189. 189ANARCHY, ANARCHISM
  190. 190ANAXAGORAS
  191. 191ANCESTOR-WORSHIP AND CULT OF THE DEAD
  192. 192ANCESTOR-WORSHIP AND CULT OF THE DEAD (Celtic)
  193. 193ANCESTOR-WORSHIP AND CULT OF THE DEAD (Egyptian)
  194. 194A. Ancestor-worship
  195. 195ANCESTOR-WORSHIP AND CULT OF THE DEAD (Hebrew)
  196. 196ANCESTOR-WORSHIP AND CULT OF THE DEAD (Indian)
  197. 197ANCESTOR-WORSHIP AND CULT OF THE DEAD (Iranian)
  198. 198ANCESTOR-WORSHIP AND CULT OF THE DEAD (Japanese)
  199. 199ANCESTOR-WORSHIP AND CULT OF THE DEAD (Jewish)
  200. 200ANCESTOR-WORSHIP AND CULT OF THE DEAD (Polynesian and Tasmanian)
  201. 201ANCESTOR-WORSHIP AND CULT OF THE DEAD (Roman)
  202. 202ANCESTOR-WORSHIP AND CULT OF THE DEAD (Ugro-Finnic)
  203. 203ANDAMANS
  204. 204ANDEANS.—1. The pre-Inca people
  205. 205ANGEL
  206. 206ANGEL DANCERS
  207. 207ANGLO-ISRAELISM
  208. 208AṄGUTTARA NIKĀYA
  209. 209ANIMISM
  210. 210TOTEMISM
  211. 211ANNAM (Popular Religion)
  212. 212ANNIHILATION
  213. 213ANOINTING
  214. 214BLOOD
  215. 215ANOINTING (Hindu)
  216. 216ANTEDILUVIANS
  217. 217ANTHROPOMORPHISM
  218. 218ANTICHRIST
  219. 219ANTINOMIANISM
  220. 220ANTINOMIES
  221. 221III. LATER HISTORY OF THE SCHOOL OF ANTIOCH
  222. 222ANURĀDHAPURA
  223. 223APACHES
  224. 224APHRODISIA
  225. 225APOLLO
  226. 226APOLLONIA
  227. 227APOLLONIUS OF TYANA
  228. 228A. HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION
  229. 229B. APOLOGETICS OF TO-DAY
  230. 230I. Outline of a progressive Apology
  231. 231APOSTASY (Jewish and Christian)
  232. 232APOSTASY (Muhammadan)
  233. 233APPETITE
  234. 234I. Psychological
  235. 235R. Avenarius
  236. 236R. Eucken
  237. 237AQUINAS
  238. 238ARAKH
  239. 239ARAMÆANS
  240. 240ĀRAṆYAKAS
  241. 241ARBITRARINESS
  242. 242ARBITRATION
  243. 243ARCANI DISCIPLINA
  244. 244ARCHÆOLOGY
  245. 245ARCHITECTURE (American)
  246. 246ARCHITECTURE (Assyro-Babylonian)
  247. 247ARCHITECTURE (Celtic)
  248. 248ARCHITECTURE (Chinese)
  249. 249ARCHITECTURE (Christian)
  250. 250ARCHITECTURE (Greek)
  251. 251ARCHITECTURE (Jewish)
  252. 252ARCHITECTURE (Muhammadan)
  253. 253ARCHITECTURE (Muhammadan in Syria and Egypt)
  254. 254ARCHITECTURE (Persian)
  255. 255ARCHITECTURE (Phœnician)
  256. 256ARCHITECTURE (Roman). — GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS
  257. 257ARCHITECTURE (Shinto)
  258. 258ARCHITECTURE AND ART (of the pagan Slavs)
  259. 259ARDASHIR I
  260. 260ARHAT
  261. 261ARISTOTLE, ARISTOTELIANISM
  262. 262I. Life
  263. 263ARK
  264. 264ARMENIA (Vannic)
  265. 265A. H. SAYCE
  266. 266ARMENIA (Zoroastrian)
  267. 267ARMENIA (Christian)
  268. 268IV. ARMENIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OR ARMENIAN CATHOLICS
  269. 269ARMINIANISM
  270. 270I. Occasion of Arminianism
  271. 271ARNAULD, ARNAULDISM
  272. 272PORT ROYAL
  273. 273ART (American)
  274. 274ART (Assyro-Babylonian)
  275. 275ART (Buddhist)
  276. 276ART (Celtic)
  277. 277ART (Christian)
  278. 278ART IN MANUSCRIPTS (Christian)
  279. 279ART (Egyptian)
  280. 280ART AND ARCHITECTURE (Etruscan and Early Italic)
  281. 281ART (Greek and Roman)
  282. 282ART (Jewish)
  283. 283ART (Muhammadan)
  284. 284ART (Persian)
  285. 285ART (Shinto)
  286. 286ART AND ARCHITECTURE (Teutonic)

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