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• Author(s): M. Winternitz | F. Max Müller • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Bibliographies & IndexesThe Sacred Books of the East, a 50-volume series, encompasses the seven non-Christian religions of A...

• Author(s): G. T. Bettany • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: EasternFirst published in 1892, this popular account of Brahmanism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Zoroastrianism serves as a spirited introduction to ...

• Author(s): Sarah E. Titcomb | Charles Morris • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Folklore & MythologyBostonian SARAH ELIZABETH TITCOMB (1841-1895) was a student of comparative religion. Like many, she ...

• Author(s): Alexander McKenzie • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Comparative ReligionIt was by a somewhat singular process of self-restraint that one whose life had been that of a parish minister undertoo...

• Author(s): Edward Carpenter • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Comparative ReligionThe main Christian doctrines and festivals, besides a great mass of affiliated legend and ceremonial, are really quite di...

• Author(s): Albert Churchward • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: General[T]he real secrets are known to a few only, and since the fall of the Old Egyptian Empire the ignorance of the human always has been ...

• Author(s): Thomas William Doane • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyAmerican author THOMAS WILLIAM DOANE (1852-1885) is considered one of the most significant contributors to t...

• Author(s): Hargrave Jennings • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Folklore & MythologyAt once an essential foundational work of comparative mythology and a quaint Victorian novelty, this is a straightfo...

• Author(s): James George Frazer • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Anthropology - GeneralThis classic four-volume series-from a pioneering ethnographer, first published in 1910-remains a foundational work ...

• Author(s): Thomas Inman • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Christianity - History - GeneralFirst published in 1869, this remarkable early work of comparative mythology intended for the general public take...

• Author(s): James George Frazer • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Anthropology - GeneralThis classic four-volume series-from a pioneering ethnographer, first published in 1910-remains a foundational work ...

• Author(s): James George Frazer • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Anthropology - GeneralThis classic four-volume series-from a pioneering ethnographer, first published in 1910-remains a foundational work ...

• Author(s): Henry Drummond • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Anthropology - PhysicalOriginally published in 1904, The Ascent of Man sought to correct what Drummond felt was an oversight in the evolutionar...

• Author(s): Lewis Spence • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: GeneralOld Teutonic ideas concerning the dead were not very defined. Souls were conceived as in the air, sweeping past on the winds; they formed ...

• Author(s): Hampden C. Dubose | Loren Coleman • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: TaoismOriginally published in London in 1886, The Dragon, Image, and Demon, Or the Three Religions of China discusses differ...

• Author(s): Andrew Lang • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Folklore & MythologyFirst published in 1887, this early work of comparative mythology remains a vital resource to students and devotees of eth...

• Author(s): James M. Pryse • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Social Science - Folklore & MythologyThe biblical Book of Revelation is not a cryptic history or prophecy, as is generally believed, but is...

• Author(s): Friedrich Maximilian Muller • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: GeneralMax Müller was one of the most popular, most respected, and most influential thinkers on spirituality of the 19th century, ...