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Stephanos Nirmalendu Ghosh Lectures 1925. Lectures on Comparative Religion

1925

For this, the earliest record of a religion which can be studied historically for more than 3,000 years, led to the foundation of a new science, one of the evidences for the importance of which, is the 50 volumes of the Sacred Books of the East, published by the Clarendon Press at Oxford, and another is the existence of several chairs to represent it in the universities of different countries. [...] According to the wishes of the founder of this lectureship, it should be the aim of the Lecturei to show that the highest ideal for man is to be found in unselfish love and service of hislellOws which is the essence of the teachings of Christ. [...] Thus beyond the pale of Judaism were the gentiles, of Hellenism the barbarians, of the Indo- Aryans the Dasas or Mlecchas ; of the Chinese the foreign devils ; of the Moslems the Kaffirs. [...] $. Thirdly, the Semitic religion of Arabia, while it has remained the faith of the country in which it arose, has mainly displaced the primitive religion, called Shamanism, of the greater part of another and backward division of the human race, the Turanians, whose original home was in Central Asia in the region of the Altai mountains, and who gradually occupied the central band of Asiatic territo [...] But the most prolific source of such evidence is the science of anthro- pology, which furnishes us with many parallel data, virtually equivalent to contemporary evidence, from the life of the many races that have remained savages down to the present may,; such as the Veddas of Ceylon, the Todas of the Nilgiris, . the; Islanders, the Natives of Australia, all of whom am at the lowest end of the scal
philosophy religion
Pages
194
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100014
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iv Arthur Macdonel view
Lecture I Introduction
1-19 unknown view
Lecture II Primitive Religion (concluded)
20-57 unknown view
Lecture III The Religions of India
58-73 unknown view
Lecture IV Buddhism and Buddhist Morality
74-91 unknown view
Lecture V Greek Religion and Morality
92-118 unknown view
Lecture VI Judaism
119-142 unknown view
Lecture VII Muhammadanism
143-166 unknown view
Lecture VIII Christianity
167-190 unknown view

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