General Descriptive Works
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Cicero. De Fato and De Natura Deorum.
Brosses, C. de. Du culte des dieux fétiches (Paris or Geneva, 1760).
Dupuis, C. F. Origine de tous les cultes, ou religion universelle (Paris, 1794; new ed., 1870).
Meiners, C. Allgemeine kritische Geschichte der Religion (Hannover, 1806-1807).
Waltz, T. Anthropologie der Naturvölker (Leipzig, 1859-1872).
Bastian, A. Beiträge zur vergleichenden Psychologie (Berlin, 1868).
Müller, Fr. Max. Introduction to the Science of Religion (2d ed., London, 1880); Natural Religion (London, 1890); Physical Religion (London, 1891); Anthropological Religion (London, 1892); Theosophy, or Psychological Religion (London, 1893).
Spencer, H. Descriptive Sociology (London, 1873-1881); Principles of Sociology (London, 1879-1896); vol. i (on religious phenomena) (New York, 1882).
Lippert, J. Religionen der europäischen Culturvölker (Berlin, 1881); Allgemeine Geschichte des Priesterthums (Berlin, 1883).
Réville, A. Prolégomènes de l'histoire des religions (Paris, 1881; Eng. tr., London, 1884); Les religions des peuples non-civilisés (Paris, 1883).
Kuenen, A. National Religions and Universal Religions (London, 1882).
Clarke, J. F. Ten Great Religions (Boston, 1883; popular ed., 1899).
d'Alviella, Goblet. Introduction à l'histoire générale des religions (Brussels, 1887); Origin and Growth of the Conception of God (London, 1892); Croyances, rites, institutions (Paris, 1911).
La Saussaye, P. D. Chantepie de. Lehrbuch der Religionsgeschichte (Freiburg, 1887-1888; Eng. tr. of vol. i, London, 1892; 2d ed., 1897).
Tylor, E. B. Researches into the Early History of Mankind (London, 1878); Primitive Culture (3d ed., London, 1891 and 1903).
The Hibbert Lectures (London and New York, 1878-1894).
The Gifford Lectures (London and New York, 1890-).
Usener, H. Religionsgeschichtliche Untersuchungen (Bonn, 1889); Götternamen (Bonn, 1896).
Frazer, J. G. The Golden Bough (London, 1890; 3d ed., 1906-1911); Early History of the Kingship (London, 1905).590
King, J. H. The Supernatural (London, 1892).
Article "Fetishism" in Hastings's Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics.
Trumbull, H. C. The Blood-Covenant (New York, 1893); The Threshold-Covenant (New York, 1896).
Marillier, L. La survivance de l'lâme et l'idée de justice chez les peuples non-civilisés (Paris, 1894); L'origine des dieux [criticism of Grant Allen's Evolution of the Idea of God] (Paris, 1899).
Steinmetz, S. R. Ethnologische Studien zur ersten Entwicklung der Strafe (Leiden and Leipzig, 1894).
Tiele, C. P. Geschichte der Religion im Alterthum bis auf Alexander den Grossen (Germ. tr., Gotha, 1895; ed. Gehrich, Gotha, 1896-1903).
Menzies, A. History of Religion (London and New York, 1895; New York, 1906).
Religious Systems of the World (London, 1896; new ed., 1902).
Carpenter, J. E. Place of Christianity among the Religions of the World (London, 1904).
Orientalische Religionen (in Die Kultur der Gegenwart) (Berlin and Leipzig, 1906).
Bloomfield, M. The Symbolic Gods (in Studies in Honor of B. L. Gildersleeve) (Baltimore, 1902).
Jevons, F. B. Introduction to the History of Religion (London, 1896; 2d ed., 1902); Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion (New York, 1908); The Idea of God in Early Religions (Cambridge, England, 1910).
Johnson, Samuel. Oriental Religions and their Relation to Universal Religion (1872-1885; Boston, 1897).
White, A. D. Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom (New York, 1897).
Durkheim, E. Définition des phénomènes religieux (in L'Année sociologique, ii) (Paris, 1897-1898).
Allen, Grant. Evolution of the Idea of God (London and New York, 1897).
Tiele, C. P. Elements of the Science of Religion (Edinburgh and London, 1897-1899).
Brinton, D. G. Religions of Primitive Peoples (New York and London, 1897).
Ratzel, F. History of Mankind (Eng. tr., London, 1898).
Lang, A. Custom and Myth (London, 1884); Myth, Ritual and Religion (2d ed., 1899); The Making of Religion (2d ed., London, 1900).
Andree, R. Die Flutsagen (Braunschweig, 1891).